G-ARVJ_1979-07-21_MUC_1200_HS

 

Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

1979-07-21 (21 July 1979)

 

G-ARVJ

Vickers VC10 Srs1101

812

Gulf Air/State of Qatar Amiri Flight

 

A very rare sight at Riem and reportedly an emergency landing due to problems with the right inner starboard engine.

 

 

Information from flickr - thanks to heathrow junkie:

G-ARVJ c/n 812 - Vickers VC-10-1101 - delivered new to BOAC in April 1964, incorporated into the British Airways fleet ten years later. Leased to the Ruler of Qatar, from 1975 to 1981, the aircraft was then sold to the RAF where it became ZD493 and was used as a source of spare parts for the RAF's VC-10 fleet at Brize Norton.

 

Detailed history of this airframe:

www.vc10.net/Airframes/cn_812__garvj.html

 

This airframe as G-ARVJ with BOAC (earlier colours):

www.vc10.net/Airframes/Images/G-ARVJ_2.jpg

 

This airframe as G-ARVJ with BOAC in July 1973 at LHR:

www.flickr.com/photos/52467480@N08/6431807147

 

This airframe as G-ARVJ in BOAC colours with British Airways titles:

www.flickr.com/photos/126917003@N05/16743021504

 

This airframe as G-ARVJ in its last British Airways colours:

www.flickr.com/photos/markp51/36523446702

 

This airframe as G-ARVJ (ZD493) at RAF Brize Norton in September 1991:

www.flickr.com/photos/60580721@N06/32427175237

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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