Delivered to BOAC as G-ASGL in 1968. Merged into British Airways in 1974. To the RAF as ZD240 in 1981 and stored at Abingdon. Flown to Filton for conversion to a K.4 tanker in 1990. Delivered to the RAF after conversion in 1994. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 2005 and scrapped in 2006.

Still in a hybrid livery a year after the merger of BEA and BOAC into British Airways. The aircraft is still in basic BOAC colours and still displays BOAC markings on the outer engine.

As seen from the Queens Building, this aircraft is touching down on runway 28L. This is one of the two VC10s that I flew in. The old BOAC advert for the VC10 was 'Love at first flight.' It certainly was for me. Taken with a borrowed 400mm lens which weighed about the same as a brick, rather like the Bigma I use today actually !