HH:-
ten months for heavens sake....
and counting...as you so rightly say this aircraft is desperately needed in service now, so why isn't it? Here is an even more obvious illustration of what has befallen UK Military Air Safety than a Fatal Airworthiness Related Air Accident, tragic though that be.
The genesis of this static display at Waddington can be traced back to 1987 when the attack by VSOs on UK Military Air Safety dates from. That resulted not only in Airworthiness Related Air Accidents involving 62 fatalities but a seriously inhibited Military Air Capability, as illustrated by this thread. Despite the cost in blood, treasure, and capability, none of those VSOs involved has been brought to account, but on the contrary continue to be protected by their successors. As a result the reform of Military Air Regulation and Investigation that is so desperately needed goes on undone.
Instead of making both independent of the MOD, they remain wholly in-house, and thus as exposed to undue interference as ever. An independent Investigator could revisit many past BoIs into Airworthiness Related Fatal Air Accidents and find that the Regulator was seriously at fault, and that the BoIs had been subject to flagrant pressures from above to hide that very fact. That can't happen until the MAA and MAAIB are made independent of the MOD and of each other.
If it takes a static display at Waddington to remain for even more months in order to achieve that urgent reform, then that will be time well spent.
Self Regulation doesn't work and in Aviation it Kills!