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Vickers VC10

1962 airliner family
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Summary

Vickers VC10 is an aircraft family[1]. It draws 7,114 Wikipedia views per month (aircraft family category, ranking #218 of 1,568).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: airliner[3]
  • Operator: Royal Air Force[4], East African Airways[5], Middle East Airlines - Air Liban[6], British Caledonian[7], British United Airways[8]
  • Manufacturer: Vickers-Armstrongs[9]
  • Developer: Vickers-Armstrongs[10]
  • Subclass of: airplane with 4 jet engines[11]
  • Has use: airliner[12]
  • Commons category: Vickers VC10[13]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[14]
  • First flight: June 29, 1962[15]
  • Service entry: April 29, 1964[16]
  • Service retirement: September 25, 2013[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vickers VC10[18]
  • Commons gallery: Vickers VC10[19]
  • Total produced: 54[20]
  • Undercarriage: retractable tricycle gear[21]
  • Wing configuration: low wing[22]

Why It Matters

Vickers VC10 has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

British Airways Middle East Airlines - Air Liban United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Militum professio scriniarii · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → aircraft family, airliner
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'g
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: airliner"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wing configuration → low wing
    Total produced → {'amount': '+54'}
    Manufacturer → Vickers-Armstrongs
    Manufacturer → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007534829605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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