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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor T.7
    Last Military Serial:WF791 RAF
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor T.7 sn WF791 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Central Flying School Vintage Pair Display Team, RAF Leeming

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor T.7 by Gloster at Hucclecote, Glos.

    25 March 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WF791.

    8 July 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Meteor T.7 of the Central Flying School displayed at the 1978 Blackpool Airshow, Lancashire.

    23 June 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Meteor T.7 of the Central Flying Schools Vintage Pair demonstration team on the flight line at the 1979 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire.

    By May 1982

    Transferred to RAF Central Flying School Vintage Pair Display Team, RAF Leeming.

    29 May 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 82

    28 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    11 August 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Mawgan Airshow

    30 May 1988

    Written off.
    Control lost during a display at Bagington Airport, when airbrakes extended, dived into ground. Pilot: Flt/Lt Stacey RAF killed.
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