Marshall Aerospace modified this RAF Hercules to be used as Airbus A400M engine test bed. Seen here with a red nose, probably for the Comic Relief charity, two years before it was broken up and scrapped at Cambridge.

This aircraft, well known before as a modified weather aircraft, was further modified by Marshall Aerospace as a test bed for the engines for the Airbus A-400M and as such it was rarely seen. An A400 engine and eight bladed prop is fitted to the port inbound position with the necessary wing strengthening struts clearly visible. It was later scrapped at Cambridge.