Corgi AA37004 Vickers VC-10-1100 BOAC G-ARVA London Heathrow Airport, 1964

This item has a limited edition certificate included.

G-ARVA was the first production VC-10 and the first of twelve to enter service with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), being delivered to London Heathrow Airport on 8th December1964. It gave faithfull service untill being sold to Nigeria Arways as 5N-ABD on 29th September 1969, in whose hands it crashed short of finals at Lagos, just two months later. The Corgi modelis depicted in BOAC's delivery scheme, which was changed to the latter blue and gold livery in 1965. on 1st April 1974, BOAC merged with BEA (British European Arways) to form todays British Airways. However, by that time the majority of standard VC-10s had been sold and only a few survived in service to see the new livery, which continued on the airlines Super VC-10s untill they too were finally disposed of.