The Magazine of The Trinity Methodist Church, Shifnal Vol.101: Summer 2015
Photograph by Ian Bain Despite the bunting it is not Shifnal Carnival Day. Had it been, I think this ‘float’ might have been in the running for a prize. As the congregation came out of church on Sunday they were met with the unusual sight of a VC10 taxiing down Victoria Road. VC10 serial number XR808 to be exact; on the last leg of its trip to the museum at RAF Cosford following a successful dismantling process carried out at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire. The process has taken a team of 8 over 7 months. The VC10 will be positioned on the airfield at RAF Cosford whilst the wings, fuselage and landing gears are reassembled. The aircraft will then make the final few steps onto the Museum site to allow the fitment of the rear fuselage fin, tail plane and engines. Later in the summer it will go on permanent display to visitors outside next to the Lockheed Hercules C130K Mk3. You might recall a similar scene when a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R.1 XV249 fuselage was brought through Shifnal to the RAF Cosford Museum in March, 2012 .