List of preserved Vickers aircraft

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This article is a list of aircraft that were manufactured by Vickers and are in preservation.

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Valiant

AircraftPhotographBuild dateFirst flightLast flightOperatorLocationStatusNotesRef.
XD818 Wikivaliant.jpg 1956September 4th, 1956January 1965 Royal Air Force Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England On static display [1] [2] [3]
XD816 Vickers Valiant BK.1 XD816 214 Sqn ABIN 150668 edited-2.jpg 195619561968 Royal Air Force Brooklands Museum Weybridge, Surrey, England On static displayCockpit only [4] [5]
XD8751957August 27th, 1957November 9th, 1962 Royal Air Force Morayvia, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland On static displayLast Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7]
XD8261956December 15th, 1956December 1964 Royal Air Force Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England On static displayCockpit only [8] [9]
XD8571957January 5th, 1957February 19th, 1965 Royal Air Force Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton, Suffolk, England On static displayCockpit only [10] [11] [12]

Vanguard

AircraftPhotographTypeBuild dateFirst flightLast flightOperatorLocationStatusNotesRef.
G-APEJ Vickers V953C Merchantman air bridge G-APEJ, AMS Amsterdam (Schiphol), Netherlands PP1167473694.jpg 953/953C1961August 16th, 1961December 24th, 1992 Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England On static displayNamed "Ajax" by Air Bridge and Hunting Cargo Airlines. Nose only on static display[ citation needed ]
G-APEP G-APEP (7999841397).jpg 953/953C1961December 13th, 1961September 30th, 1996 - October 17th, 1996 Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England On static displayNamed "Superb" by Air Bridge and Hunting Cargo Airlines [ citation needed ]
G-APES G-APES Vanguard ABC CVT 22-12-78 (22009464369).jpg 953/953C1962January 24th, 1962May 1975 (British Airways)
February 4th, 1995 (Hunting Cargo Airlines)
East Midlands Aeropark, England On static displayNamed "Swiftsure" by Air Bridge and Hunting Cargo Airlines. Nose only on static display[ citation needed ]

Viscount

AircraftPhotographTypeBuild dateFirst flightLast flightOperatorLocationStatusNotesRef.
G-ALWF Vickers Viscount 701 'G-ALWF' (40303772210).jpg 701A1952December 1952December 24th, 1971 Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England On static displayNamed "Sir John Franklin" [13] [14]
G-AMOG G-AMOG V701 Viscount BOAC (op by Cambrian) MAN 25APR72 (5641661354).jpg 7011953February 11th, 1953March 31st, 1976 National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland On static displayNamed "Sir Robert Falcon Scott" [15] [16]
PP-SRO Vickers 701C Viscount, VASP AN1889371.jpg 701C1955May 4th, 1955February 28th, 1969 Museu Eduardo André Matarazzo, Jardim Recantro, Bebedouro, State of São Paulo, Brazil On static displayNamed "R. M. A. William Dampier" by British European Airways [17] [18]
F-BGNR Vickers Viscount 708 'F-BGNR' (23703219419).jpg 708October 12th, 1953 - December 11th, 1953May 6th, 1954December 1996 Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire, England On static displayOnce named "Victoria Lynne" [19] [20] [21]
F-BGNU Vickers 708 Viscount, Air Inter AN0592522.jpg 708January 25th, 1954 - March 10th, 1954July 5th, 1954March 26th, 1975 Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany On static display [22] [23]
VH-TVR Vickers 836 Viscount, British Midland Airways - BMA AN2268644.jpg 953C1958November 19th, 1958April 4th, 1970 Trans-Australia Airlines Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia On static displayNamed "John Murray" [24] [25]

VC-10

AircraftPhotographTypeBuild dateFirst flightLast flightOperatorLocationStatusNotesRef.
G-ARVF G-ARVF VC-10 BOAC LHR 06MAR64 (5658918005).jpg 11011963July 6th, 1963Spring 1981 Flugausstellung Hermeskeil at Hermeskeil, Germany On static display [26] [27]
G-ARVM BAC VC10-1101 (cn 815, G-ARVM) 1990-05-01 Andre Gerwing Collection ID 018441.jpg 11011964July 6th, 1964October 22nd, 1979 Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, England On static displayFuselage only [28] [29]
A4O-AB/G-ASIX A4O-AB (6865064103).jpg 11031964October 17th, 1964July 5th, 1987 Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, England On static displayNamed "Loch Maree" by Caledonian Airways, British United Airways and British Caledonian. [30] [31]
G-ASGC Vickers Super VC10 'G-ASGC'.jpg 11511965January 1st, 1965April 22nd, 1980 BOAC-Cunard Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England On static display [32] [33]
ZA148/5Y-ADA A2634-UnitedKingdom-VC10-ZA148-RIAT2013.JPG 11641967March 21st, 1967August 28th, 2013 South Wales Aviation Museum, Bro Tathan North, St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales On static display [34] [35]
ZA149/5X-UVJ Vickers VC10 K3 Royal Air Force (RAF) (RRR) ZA149 - MSN 884 (5448903354).jpg 11641969April 19th, 1969March 18th, 2013 Al Mahatta Museum, Sharjah, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates On static display [36] [37]
ZA150/5H-MOG ZA150 Vickers VC10 K3 (9920128993).jpg 11641970February 16th, 1970September 20th, 2013 - September 24th, 2013 Kepler Aerospace Awaiting restoration to airworthy status [38] [39] [40] [41]
XR808 Vickers Vickers VC 10 C1K (XR808), RAF Museum Cosford. (26481152131).jpg 11801966June 9th, 1966July 29th, 2013 Royal Air Force Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, Cosford, Shropshire, England On static displayNamed "Kenneth Campbell VC, Hugh Malcolm VC & Thomas Mottershead VC" by the Royal Air Force. [42] [43]
XV106 ROYAL AIRFORCE (2685731750).jpg 11801967November 17th, 1967July 26th, 2017 United States Air Force Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford, Greater Manchester, England On static displayNamed "Thomas Mottershead VC, W" by the Royal Air Force. Forward fuselage only in preservation [44]
XV108 VC10 Royal Air Force.jpg 11801968June 7th, 1968November 7th, 2012 Royal Air Force East Midlands Aeropark, England On static displayNamed "William Rhodes-Moorhouse VC" by the Royal Air Force. Forward fuselage only in preservation

Formerly preserved, scrapped

VC-10

AircraftModelPhotographBuild dateFirst flightLast flightOperatorLast seenScrap dateCause of scrappingNotesRef.
ZD241K.4 ZD241.jpg April 11th, 196326 February 1968May 7th, 1980 Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom April 20th, 2022Aging Airframe, Lack of Air Tanker Conversion, Dismantling for Spares and Research [45]
ZA147K.3 ZA147-F at Bruntingthorpe (14304204141).jpg March 1965October 12th, 1966September 2013 Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom November 2021Aging airframeCockpit section was saved for preservation [46]

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