...then the AEW3 debacle: 12 aircrafts)
With Transport Command + Nimrod, that's either 58 or 107 aircrafts at the very minimum. While no 800*KC-135s, still that's more than enough to kickstart the VC-7 career through the RAF.
Then, after 1960, 44 Valiants ver converted into tankers, got wing...