Every time I see an aircraft type that I know I have flown in I check its details with this website. I have a couple of pages covering my flying while in the RAF Air Cadets. Powered flight is covered on this communication. Recently on a visit to the RAF Museum, Midlands, at Cosford I found out two things. One, there is a VC-10 on display that I have been inside and flown with. Secondly I got the serial numbers wrong in either the communication or my original log book, F3822. The VC-10 at Cosford was serial XR808. In my communication I had put XV808. Now, it turns out that XV808 is a Harrier and I have NEVER flown in a Harrier. So, XR seems to be the correct letters. Whoops.
This particular aircraft has a long and interesting history. I found this page detailing her life. My two hours on 26 August 1987 were spent mainly trying to catch up on sleep – summer camp is a very tiring week!