ZA150 ¦ LKHK 17.07.1993 - a photo on Flickriver

ZA150 ¦ LKHK 17.07.1993

            Vickers VC-10 1164/K.3 (c/n 885)
Royal Air Force
Hradec Králové (LKHK)
17 July 1993

This was the very last one! The very last Vickers VC-10 to be built, and the very last VC-10 I have ever seen and photographed, more than 30 years ago. The VC-10 has always been my favourite, and it is a pity that only 54 were built, and none of them is still around airworthy today.

Built as a VC-10 1154 for East African Airways, and delievered in 1970 as 5H-MOG, the aircraft was acquired by the Royal Air Force when EAA folded its wings in January 1977. Becoming ZA150 it was converted to tanker/transport model 1164/K.3 during 1984, and eventually delivered to the RAF in February 1985. Coded J, it was operated by the famous 101 Sqdn from RAF Brize Norton, and was captured on the flight line of the very first Czech International Air Fete at Hradec Králové airbase. Even though the day started sunny, when the VC-10 arrived, the first rain showers had found their way into Hradec, however, not really preventing the joy and photography of this bird, the largest and most gracious on the field at that day.

ZA150 continued with the RAF until 20 September 2013, when it was withdrawn from use as the very last of the type in RAF service, ferried to Dunsfold and transferred to the Brooklands museum for display. However, in 2020 it was sold to GJD Aerotech and US registration N150ZA was assigned, for planned use as an aerial tanker in the USA by Kepler Aerospace. Not much more has emerged, though, on this project, except that the aircraft was indeed registered as N150ZA to Aerovision LLC of Florida in January 2022. 

As of now, however, ZA150 is still sitting at Dunsfold - the nearest airfield to the Brooklands museum - and is reportedly in taxiable condition. Making it a very last one again, as all other VC-10s still to be found in museums or on dumps will hardly ever taxi again!
   

Taken in: Bohemia / Královéhradecký kraj / Hradec Králové / Správčice (show map)

Taken on: July 17, 1993

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