At £900k that's a service check and paint job, was the aircraft due a respray. When I was on VC10's we kept a some aircraft in Gloss paint and the others in dull gray, the gloss one's had a basic colour paint scheme and did trouping flights, we had a bunch of first class seat we put in when they did VIP operations. Aircraft need re-painting regularly, also was this one of the ex TC aircraft, in an odd colour scheme. Need facts, most of this chat seems to be based on rumor.