Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
That’s certainly a potential option.
The long and the short of it is this: the VC10 in it’s taxiing form is almost unique. ZA150 taxies at Dunsfold but we know that site will someday be a housing estate. If there is a chance to keep a LIVE VC10, there is no option but to act now.
The VC10 Rescue and Relocation Project (note this is separate to the VC10 Preservation Group that operate the jet at Bruntingthorpe*) aims to do that. It’s a tall order, and they know that. The jet is privately owned, but to move it the team need to know that the public want the jet to move and survive in some form (we’d love to continue taxiing it); to move it otherwise - commercially - would not make sense.
So, in some ways the project is a bit Vulcan like, in that we have no choice to go cap-in-hand to ask for donations and gauge public opinion and sponsorship.
*fundraising to move the aircraft would does not fall into the VC10 PG’s charitable remit.