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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.8
    Last Military Serial:WA880 RAF
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor F.8 sn WA880 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a Meteor F.8.

    13 June 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WA880.

    From 1962 to 1969

    Base of operations changed.
    Based in Singapore.

    4 November 1969

    Placed on display with Singapore Air Force Technical College.
    SAFTECH2

    From 1982 to 1989

    Moved to Sentosa Island.

    August 1989

    To Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland.
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    1990


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1990 photo at Queensland Air Museum

    1996

    Markings Applied: A77-721
    Painted to represent the first Meteor lost in combat in Korea.
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