After retirement from British Airways the airframe was acquired in 1981 by the MOD for possible air tanker conversion and flown to Abingdon. After almost 10 years of storage there it was ferried to Bristol Filton in January 1991 for conversion to Super VC-10 K.4 configuration, and on completion was delivered to 101 Squadron at Brize Norton in December 1994. It made its last flight on 16th December 2005 when it was ferried from RAF Fairford St. Athan where it was broken up the following year.

Incorrectly marked as ZD 230 B. The airframe was acquired by the MOD for possible air tanker conversion but it was never converted and was dismantled for spares at Abingdon in March 1987.

The airframe was acquired by the MOD for possible air tanker conversion but it was never converted and was dismantled for spares at Abingdon in August 1993, some major sections were trucked to Bristol Filton for research into aging airframe deterioration and these were in turn scrapped in 1996.