After retirement from British Airways the airframe was acquired in 1981 by the MOD for possible air tanker conversion and flown to Abingdon. After almost 10 years of storage there it was ferried to Bristol Filton in January 1991 for conversion to Super VC-10 K.4 configuration, and on completion was delivered to 101 Squadron at Brize Norton in December 1994. It made its last flight on 16th December 2005 when it was ferried from RAF Fairford St. Athan where it was broken up the following year.

First Super VC-10. First flew as G-ASGA in 1964. Delivered to BOAC in 1965. Merged into British Airways in 1974. Sold to the RAF as ZD230 in 1981 and stored at Abingdon. Flown to Filton for conversion to a K.4 in 1991 and delivered to the RAF in 1994. Last flight to St.Athan in 2005 and scrapped in 2006.