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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor TT.20
    Last Military Serial:WD592 RAF
    Construction Number:AW.5249
    Last Civil Registration:N94749
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor TT.20.

    18 April 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD592.

    Transferred to 264 Squadron.

    Transferred to 728 Squadron Royal Navy, Hal Far, Malta.
    Operated with markings: HF-864

    By July 1967

    Transferred to 5 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kemble.

    20 January 1975

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    To unknown owner with c/r N94749.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Mojave, CA.

    27 February 1975


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Seen at Biggin Hill in April 1975 awaiting transfer to the United States was this Meteor TT.20 version of the Meteor NF.11. It had previously been in service with 728 Squadron.

    By March 1976


    Photographer: Charlene Aro

    3 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: N94749 - Meteor NF.11 - ex-Royal Air Force - Mojave

    1 November 1980


    Photographer: Al Clegg
    Notes: At Mojave Airport (KMHV)

    1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Photographed at the Mojave, California airport.

    1987


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Mojave, California airport.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    Loaned to 95 ABW/MU, Edwards AFB, CA.

    October 1993

    Placed on display with Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    4 January 1994

    Civil registration, N94749, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Mojave, CA.

    September 1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Air Force Flight Test Museum, Edwards AFB, CA

    8 October 2010


    Photographer: Mike Hill
    Notes: 2010 photo - preserved at Edwards AFB, California

    2 March 2019


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: This aircraft is shown at the Air Force Flight Test Museum, Edwards AFB.
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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