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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.8
    Last Military Serial:I-187 KLu
    Construction Number:6466
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Flevoland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor F.8.

    10 March 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n I-187.

    25 May 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force.

    25 May 1958

    To Vliegbasis Soesterberg/Soesterberg Airbase, Soest, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    Circa 30 June 1968


    Photographer: R Meijer
    Notes: My first open house at Soesterberg air base. I-187 preserved near the memorial statue for fallen aviators.

    By 1981

    Markings Applied: I-147

    12 September 1981


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: I-147 Gloster Meteor F.8 Royal Netherlands Air Force False serial, real identity I-187. Preserved, and on static display at KLu Soesterberg Open Day

    February 2006

    To Hoogeveen Airfield, the Netherlands.

    February 2009

    Placed on display with Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Flevoland.
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    10 October 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    After 2010

    Markings Applied: 3W-32

    26 March 2014


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2014 photo at Lelystad Aviodrome Museum
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