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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor NF.11
    Last Military Serial:WD686 RAF
    Construction Number:AW.5338
    Latest Owner or Location:Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor NF.11.

    23 April 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD686.


    Photographer: Unknown

    By August 1978

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    April 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK.

    Circa 1991

    Placed on display with The Muckleburgh Collection, Weybourne, Norfolk, England.
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    2006


    Photographer: Andrew Breeden

    July 2014


    Photographer: Joe Petroni
    Notes: I was saddened to see the Meteor, which used to be on display at the museum, dismantled on the airfield

    27 April 2017

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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