The prototype Victor first flew on 24.12.52 and is seen displaying at its first Farnborough SBAC show in September 1953, wearing its manufacturers two-tone colour scheme with no underwing roundels. WB771 lost its tailplane due to tail flutter on 14.07.54 and was destroyed in the ensuing fatal crash.

Being prepared for display at Duxford

This was the K.2 tanker that followed Vulcan XM607 on both the trip to Ascencion and on the first Black Buck mission to bomb Port Stanley airport in 1982. Given ground instructional serial 9024M and broken up at Marham 2.96. Behind are fellow 57 Sqdn Victors XH671 (w/o 3.93 and b/u Marham) and XL162 (b/u Manston 1999)