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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.8
    Last Military Serial:WK914 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor F.8.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK914.

    23 September 1952

    Transferred to 19 Squadron, RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire.

    4 May 1954

    Transferred to No. 5 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit, Llanbedr, Wales.

    17 May 1962

    Transferred to College of Air Warfare, RAF Manby, Lincolnshire.

    24 July 1970

    Transferred to No. 5 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire.

    2 March 1973

    Transferred to RAF Manston, Kent.
    Transferred to Manston for fire training duties.

    26 February 1975


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Meteor F.8 was allocated for fire training duties at RAF Manston, Kent

    1980

    Contracted to Royal Aeronautical Society-Medway, Rochester Airport, Kent for work on the airframe.
    Transferred to for restoration by the Medway Branch of the.

    Restored.
    The work was carried out by the R.A.S.

    2 October 1983

    Dedicated as a memorial to 500 Squadron at Rochester.

    8 August 1988

    To Old Flying MacHine Company, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

    Markings Applied: WF714

    To Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta.
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    20 October 2007

    3 March 2014


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: At the Malta Aviation Museum
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