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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor NF.14
    Last Military Serial:WS776 RAF
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor NF.14 sn WS776 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor NF.14.
    New construction number, Unknown, assigned to the airframe.

    9 February 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WS776.
    Accepted by the Air Ministry.

    15 June 1954

    Transferred to 25 Squadron, West Mailing.
    Operated with markings: K

    2 July 1958

    Transferred to 85 Squadron., Church Fenton.
    Operated with markings: J

    25 November 1958

    Transferred to 72 Squadron, Church Fenton.
    Operated with markings: J

    15 June 1959

    Transferred to 60 Squadron, RAF Leeming.

    25 August 1959

    Assigned to MU, Kemble for storage.

    26 July 1960

    Transferred to No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU), Leeming.
    Operated with markings: Z

    25 January 1961

    Transferred to 33 MU, Lyneham.

    30 March 1961

    New serial number assigned: 7716M RAF
    Allocated a maintenance number.

    3 May 1961

    Transferred to RAF North Luffenham.
    Operated with markings: K
    Placed on display as a gate guard.

    1 June 1974


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: WS776 - Meteor NF.14 - Royal Air Force - North Luffenham - Joined 25 Squadron at West Malling in June 1954 before flying with Nos 72 and 60 Squadrons at Church Fenton and 60 Squadron at Leeming (1959). Relegated to training duties with 228 Operational Conversion Unit at Leeming between July 1960 and January 61 before placed into store at Lyneham. Gate guard at North Luffenham between May 1961 and March 1998

    29 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Seen as gate guardian at RAF North Luffenham in the Summer of 1978 where it had been since 1961.

    March 1998

    To Aviation Group, North Coates.

    November 1999

    To Airport, Sandtoft, Yorkshire-South, England.
    Placed on display at the gate.
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    5 February 2005

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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    5 April 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Bournemouth-Hurn, england

    By 16 May 2012

    Markings Applied: WS776, K

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Bournemouth Aviation Museum
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