List of surviving Gloster Meteors
| List of surviving Gloster Meteors |
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| Gloster Meteor F.8 44-499 of the Royal Danish Air Force, on display at the Danish Collection of Vintage Aircraft, Stauning Airport |
The Gloster Meteor is a twin-engined jet fighter, the first jet aircraft to serve with the RAF and the only allied jet aircraft to reach combat in World War II. Almost 4,000 were produced, mostly in service with the RAF between 1944 and 1965. Meteors also served with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), whose aircraft saw action in the Korean War, and other users included the Argentinian Air Force, the Brazilian and the Belgian air forces. Many are preserved but only five are airworthy.
Argentina
The first export order for Meteors came from Argentina, who received 100 F.4s. The first 50 were ex-RAF, the second 50 new.[1] The Fuerza Aérea Argentina (FAA) identified aircraft with a number which remained the same throughout the life of the airframe, preceded by a letter indicating the role. From purchase in the late 1940s to about 1963 the Meteors were used as interceptors, letter I, and hence serialled e.g. I-025. After that, they were deployed as fighter bombers, letter C, and the same aircraft exampled before became C-025. A few, rebuilt aircraft did change number.
- Stored or under restoration[2]
- Meteor F.4 I-029, ex-EE537, being restored for the Museo Regional Interfuerzas, Santa Romana, San Luis.
- On display[2]
- Meteor F.4 I-002, ex RA386, displayed on plinth in Merlo, Buenos Aires. Painted as C-051.
- Meteor F.4 I-005, ex-RA390, displayed on plinth, Museum of Independence, Tandil, Buenos Aires.
- Meteor F.4 I-010, ex-RA393, School of Education (ENET no.4), Quilmes, Buenos Aires. Used as teaching aid.
- Meteor F.4 I-014, ex-EE575, displayed on plinth in Goya, Corrientes.
- Meteor F.4 I-019, ex-EE553, displayed on plinth at the Northern Roundabout of the Avenue Spinetto Santa Rosa, La Pampa. Painted as I-021, condition poor.
- Meteor F.4 I-025, ex-EE532, displayed on plinth on the Avenue of the Air Force, outside the Escuela de Aviación Militar, Córdoba.
- Meteor F.4 I-027, ex-EE527, Museo Regional Interfuerzas, Santa Romana, San Luis. It is the oldest Meteor airframe surviving anywhere, for the first 8 prototypes DG202-9/G, the first of which is preserved in the UK, did not bear the name.
- Meteor F.4 I-031, ex-EE588, Liceo Aeronáutico Militar de Funes, Funes, Santa Fe.
- Meteor F.4 I-038, ex-EE587, Junin Aeroclub, Junin, Buenos Aires.
- Meteor F.4 I-041, ex-EE586, Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina, Morón, Buenos Aires.[3]
- Meteor F.4 I-057, displayed on plinth Loreto, Santiago del Estero. The earliest surviving Argentine built aircraft.[1]
- Meteor F.4 I-073, gate guardian (on tower to the left) at Mar del Plata Air Base. Painted as C-071.
- Meteor F.4 I-084, Resistencia, Chaco.
- Meteor F.4 I-088, Aeroclub Chivilcoy, Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires.
- Meteor F.4 I-090, displayed on plinth, Plaza Batalla de Salta, Salta City.
- Meteor F.4 I-093, gate guardian on plinth, VII Brigada Aerea, Jose C. Paz, Buenos Aires. Painted as C-099.
- Meteor F.4 I-094, Grupo de Vigilancia, Merlo, Buenos Aires.
- Meteor F.4 I-095, gate guardian on plinth, Edificio Condor, Buenos Aires.
- Meteor F.4 I-099, on plinth at Presidente Perón International Airport, Neuquen.
Australia
- Airworthy
- On display
- Meteor T.7 A77-705, ex-WA680, RAAF Museum, Point Cook VIC.[4]
- Meteor T.7 A77-701, originally A77-229, ex-WA731, Woomera Defence Village SA.[4][5]
- Meteor T.7 A77-702, originally A77-30, ex-WA732, RAAF Museum, Point Cook VIC.[4][5]
- Meteor F.8 WE925, Bankstown, NSW. ex East Midlands Aeropark, Wales Aircraft Museum
- Meteor F.8 A77-???, ex-?. Painted as A77-207, WE905. At Edinburgh, SA.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-???, ex-WA880, Queensland Air Museum,Cabundra Aerodrome, Brisbane. Painted as A77-721.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-368, ex-WA952, Anzac Hall, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-385, ex-WE918, Fighter World Museum, RAAF Williamtown, NSW.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-707,ex-WH118, Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin Airport, Moorabbin, Melbourne, VIC.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-867, ex-RAF WK685, Classic Jets Fighter Museum Parafield Airport, Parafield, SA. After the Korean War joined the reformed Australian 77 Sqn. in December 1955.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-868, ex-WK674, Camden Museum of Aviation, NSW, Australia [6]
- Meteor F.8 A77-870, ex-WK748, RAAF Museum, Point Cook, VIC.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-871, ex-WK791, RAAF Forrest Hill, Wagga-Wagga, NSW.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-874, ex-WK909, RAAF Forrest Hill, Wagga-Wagga, NSW.[4]
- Meteor F.8 A77-875, ex-WK798, Restoration Hangar, Fighter World Museum, RAAF Williamtown NSW.[4]
- Meteor TT.20 WD667, Queensland Air Museum, Cabundra Aerodrome, Brisbane.[7]
Belgium
The Belgian Air Force had 48 Meteor F.4s, 42 T.7s and, later 240 F.8s.[8]
- On display
- Meteor F.8 EG-80, 1st wing Historical Center, Beauvechain, Belgium.[9] Built under licence in Holland by Fokker.[10]
- Meteor F.8 EG-162, Dinant.[11] Built under licence in Holland by Fokker and assembled in Belgium by Avions Fairey.[10]
- Meteor F.8 EG-224, Musée Royal de Brussels, Brussels.[11] Built in Belgium by Avions Fairey with parts provided by Glosters.[10]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-3, French Armée de l'Air, ex-WM298,[5] Musée Royal de Brussels, Brussels.[11]
Brazil
The Brazilian Air Force received 10 Meteor T.7s and 60 F.8s. [12]
- On display
- Meteor F.8 4401, left off the approach to AMAN, Resende, Rio de Janeiro.[13] The second of the F.8s.[12]
- Meteor F.8 4404, gate guardian Salvador-International/Deputado Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Salvador.[15]
- Meteor F.8 4406, Barbacena.[13]
- Meteor F.8 4409, Cultura Museu Eduardo André Matarazzo, Botucatu, São Paulo.[16]
- Meteor F.8 4411, Goiania.[13]
- Meteor F.8 4413, Camp Fontanelle Air Base,Pirassununga, São Paulo.[11]
- Meteor F.8 4430, on plinth at Santa Cruz Air Force Base (BASC), Rio de Janeiro.[13]
- Meteor F.8 4439, on a pylon in the Praça do Avião, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul.[13]
- Meteor F.8 4440, Museu Asas de um Sonho, São Carlos.[11][17]
- Meteor F.8 4442, Cultura Museu Eduardo André Matarazzo, Botucatu, São Paulo.[16]
- Meteor F.8 4448, gate guardian to Canoas Air Base (BACO), R. Augusto Severo, Canoas.[13]
- Meteor F.8 4452, CINDACTA II, Curitiba, Paraná. Displayed on the entry road to the complex.[11][13]
- Meteor F.8 4460, ex-4399, Museu Aeroespacial (MUSAL), Campo dos Afonsas, Rio de Janeiro.[13][14]
Czech Republic
- On display
Denmark
The Royal Danish Air Force purchased 20 each of Meteors marks F.4, F.8 and NF.11, plus 9 T.7s.[19]
- Stored or under restoration
- Meteor F.4 44-469, Ferle, in store for Danmarks Flyvemuseum.[11]
- On display
- Meteor F.8 44-491, The Museum Royal Danish Air Force Station Karup, Gedhusvagten[11]
- Meteor F.8 44-499, Danish Collection of Vintage Aircraft, Stauning Airport.[21]
Ecuador
The government ordered 12 ex-RAF FR.9s in 1954.[23]
- Meteor F.R.9 FF-113 or FF-123, ex-VW663, Air Force Museum, Quito.[5][11]
France
L'Armée de l'Air had 32 ex-RAF meteor NF.11s delivered in the early 1950s.[24]
- On display
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-1, ex-WM296,[5] Musée Européen de la Chasse, Montelimar.[25]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-4, Ailes Anciennes Toulouse. Toulouse.[25]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-5, ex-WM300, Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris le Bourget. Reserve collection.[26]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-6, Chateau Savigny-les-Beaune.[25]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-8, ex-WM303, Ailes Anciennes Toulouse. Toulouse.[27]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-9, ex-WM304, Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris le Bourget. Reserve collection.[26]
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-15 Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris le Bourget. Reserve collection.[28] Interesting nose.
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-24, ex-WM301,[5] Ailes Anciennes Toulouse. Toulouse.
- Meteor NF.11 NF-11-747, ex-WM747, Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris le Bourget. Reserve collection.[26]
- Meteor NF.11 SE-DCF, ex-WM-395,[5] Chateau Savigny-les-Beaune.[25]
Germany
- On display
The Netherlands
The Royal Netherlands Air Force received 65 Meteor F.4s, 43 T.7s and 160 F.8s.[19]
- Stored or under restoration
- On display
Israel
The Israeli Air Force received 4 Meteor T.7s, 12 F.8s, 7 FR.9s and 6 NF.13s.[30]
- On display
Malta
- Stored or under restoration
- Meteor T.7 WL360, Malta Aviation Museum workshops.[33]
- On display
- Malta NF.14 WS774, Malta Aviaton Museum.[33]
- Meteor F.8 WK914, Malta Aviation Museum (new arrival, ex-Mallom).[34] Painted as WK714, it has a FR.9 nose.[35]
New Zealand
- Meteor TT.20 WD767, Siverdale Museum, Silverdale.
Sweden
The Swedish Air Force had 3 Meteor T.7s.[36]
- Stored or under restoration
- Meteor T.7 SE-CAS, ex-WF833, Linköping Flygvapenmuseum, Linköping.[37]
United Kingdom
- Airworthy
- Meteor T.7 WA638, used by Martin-Baker Ltd since 1952 to test ejection seats. Based at Chalgrove Airfield, near Watlington, Oxfordshire.[38]
- Meteor T.7 WL419, used by Martin-Baker Ltd since 1952 to test ejection seats. Based at Chalgrove Airfield, near Watlington, Oxfordshire.[38]
- Meteor T.7 G-BWMF, ex-WA591. Owned by Air Atlantique, Coventry.[39] First flight after restoration 14 June 2011. The aircraft is painted as FMK-Q, its markings when with No 203 Advanced Flying School at RAF Driffield, Yorkshire in 1951.[40][41]
- Meteor TT.20 G-LOSM, ex-WM167 and a NF.11 conversion. Based at Coventry Airport, Warwickshire.[42]
- Stored or under restoration
Stored at Staverton, Gloucestershire are:
- Meteor T.7 WF784
- Meteor T.7 WL349
- Meteor F.8 WH364
of the currently closed (January 2010) Jet Age Museum.[43] Their
- On display
- Meteor T.7 VW453, Gate guardian RAF Innsworth, Gloucestershire.[51]
- Meteor T.7 VZ634, Newark Air Museum, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.[52]
- Meteor T.7 VZ638, Gatwick Aviation Museum, Charlwood, Surrey.[53]
- Meteor T.7 (mod) WA634, RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.[54]
- Meteor T.7 WA622, AeroVenture, Doncaster, S. Yorkshire.[55]
- Meteor T.7 WF825, Montrose Air Station Museum,[56] Montrose, Angus, Scotland.
- Meteor T.7 WH132, RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire.[57]
- Meteor T.7 WH166, Birlingham, Worcestershire. Private collection.[58]
- Meteor T.7 WL332, Long Marston Airfield, Warwickshire.[59]
- Meteor T.7 WL345, on plinth in Church Wood Drive, Hastings, East Sussex, England.[60]
- Meteor T.7 WL375, Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.[61]
- Meteor T.7 WL405, Hooton Park, Cheshire.[62]
- Meteor F.8 WA984, Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Chichester, W. Sussex. Painted as WA829.[49]
- Meteor F (TT).8 WF643, Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk.[63]
- Meteor F.8 WH291, Lasham Aerodrome, Hampshire.[64]
- Meteor F.8 WH301, RAF Museum Hendon, London.[65]
- Meteor F.8 WK654, City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, Norfolk. Painted as WL135. [66][67]
- Meteor F.8 WK935, RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.[54] The prone pilot Meteor.[68]
- Meteor F.8 WK991, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire.[69]
- Meteor F.8 WL168, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire. Painted as WK864.[70]
- Meteor F.8 WL181, North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear[71] - Repaint almost complete as of October 2010
- Meteor NF.13 4X-FNA, ex-Israeli (IF-AF), previously mostly WM366, Lasham Aerodrome, Hampshire. Nose is from TT.20 WM234, rear fuselage from F.8 VZ462.[64]
- Meteor NF.14 WS726, Park Lane, Royton, Greater Manchester.[74]
- Meteor NF.14 WS739, Newark Air Museum, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.[73]
- Meteor NF.14 WS760, Aeropark, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Castle Donnington, Leicestershire.[75]
- Meteor NF.14 WS776, Bournemouth Airport, Dorset.[76]
- Meteor NF.14 WS788, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire.[70]
- Meteor NF.14 WS792, Brighouse Caravan Park, Borgue, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.[77]
- Meteor NF.14 WS832, Solway Aviation Museum, Carlisle Lake District Airport, Cumbria.[78]
- Meteor NF.14 WS838, Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport Baginton, Warwickshire.[48]
- Meteor NF.14 WS843, RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.[79]
- Meteor NF.14 G-ARCX, National Museum of Flight, East Lothian, Scotland. Ex-WM261, Ferranti's radar development test-bed. NF.11 conversion.[80]
USA
- Under restoration
- On display
References
Notes
- ^ a b James 1971, p. 262
- ^ a b Padin 2007, pp. 34–45
- ^ "National Aviation Museum, Buenos Aires". http://www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar/historia/museo_aviones.html.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "RAAF serials". http://www.adf-serials.com/2a77.shtml.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "List of ex-RAF Meteors". http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=730.
- ^ "A77-868". http://www.camdenmuseumofaviation.com.au/aircraft_collection_details.asp?id=2.
- ^ "MeteorflightAus". http://www.meteorflight.com/waveplus/meteor.nsf/pages/meteors_australia.
- ^ James 1971, pp. 263, 270, 280
- ^ "Meteor F.8, EG-80". http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/clyde/808/beauvech.html.
- ^ a b c d James 1971, p. 280
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Meteorflight". http://www.meteorflight.com/waveplus/meteor.nsf/pages/meteors_world.
- ^ a b James 1971, p. 271, 283
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Brazilian Meteors". http://www.rudnei.cunha.nom.br/FAB/br/f-83.html.
- ^ a b "MUSAL". http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/World/Latin_America/Brazil/Rio_de_Janeiro/Museu_Aeroespacial.htm.
- ^ "Meteor at Salvador". http://www.airliners.net/photo/Brazil---Air/Gloster-F-8-Meteor/0687735/M/.
- ^ a b "Materazzo Museum". http://www.alide.com.br/joomla/index.php/component/content/article/37-ed34/97-museu-eduardo-andre-matarazzo.
- ^ "TAM museum". http://www.museutam.com.br/smt/jsp/default.jhtml?adPagina=445&adArtigo=9491.
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- ^ a b "Danmrks Flyvemuseum". http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/imh/def.htm.
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- ^ "Defence & Garrison Museum". http://www.forsvarsmuseum.dk/dansk/fly.html.
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- ^ James 1971, pp. 295–6
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- ^ James 1971, pp. 272, 283, 289, 298
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- ^ "Hooton Park.". Air Britain News (April 2011): p.480.
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 39
- ^ James 1971, p. 272–3
- ^ "Linköping Flygvapenmuseum". http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/World/Europe/Sweden/Linkoping/Flygvapenmuseum.htm.
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- ^ Ellis 2010, page 59
- ^ March, Peter R. "Meteor T7 Flies." Aircraft, August 2011
- ^ Pilot, December 2011, p49
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 217
- ^ "Jet Age Museum". http://jetagemuseum.org/default.aspx.
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 61
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 198
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 29
- ^ Pilot, December 2011, p49
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 219
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 217
- ^ James 1971, p. 258
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 60
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 170
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 208
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 175
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 272
- ^ "Montrose Air Station". http://www.rafmontrose.org.uk/displays.html.
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 260
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 257
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 218
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 213
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 279
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 30
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 200
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 70
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 143
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 159
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- ^ James 1971, pp. 279–90
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 22
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 267
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 167
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 162
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 171
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 152
- ^ a b Ellis 2008, page 129
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 46
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 277
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 38
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 177
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 280
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 193
- ^ "Suffolk Bentwaters Cold War Museum". http://www.bcwm.org.uk/.
- ^ Ellis 2010, page 220
- ^ Ellis 2008, page 86
- ^ Ogden 2011, page 216
- ^ Ogden 2011, page 130
- ^ Ogden 2011, page 167
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- James, Derek N. (1971). Gloster Aircraft since 1917. London: Putnam Publishing. ISBN 0 370 00084 6.
- Padín, Jorge (2007). Serie Fuerza Aérea #12 Gloster Meteor. London.
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