15.05.1979
delivered British Airways ; registered G-BFCD ; named The Astral Rose
03/1983
bought Royal Air Force ; re-registered ZD951
10/1983
leased British Airways ; re-registered G-BFCD
12/1983
returned Royal Air Force ; re-registered ZD951
01/1986
converted K Mk.1
Pictures
Palmdale - Production Flight Test Installation AF Plant 42 (PMD / KPMD)
USA - California, March 1979
build in msn 1165
London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)
UK - England, May 27, 1981
G-BFCD "The Astral Rose"
In Flight
UK - England, 1996
ZD951
Brize Norton (BZZ / EGVN)
UK - England, September 14, 2005
First photograph of ZD951 in the new RAF Tristar scheme.