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Old Feb 6, 2025 | 10:57 am
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I would add that there was an ex East African Airways VC-10 that completed 51 years of service with EAA and the RAF before retirement in 2013. Originally registered as 5H-MMT in October 1966 and I flew on her as a small boy in 1971. A very sturdy aircraft.
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