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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor NF.13
    Last Military Serial:52 IDF
    Construction Number:AW.5616
    Last Civil Registration:4X-FNA
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor NF.13 sn 52 IDF cn A...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gloucestershire Aviation Collections Jet Age Museum, Staverton Airport, Gloucestershire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor NF.13.

    From 10 April 1953 to 20 April 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WM366.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Israeli Defense Force with s/n 2156.

    New serial number assigned: 52 IDF

    To unknown owner with c/r 4X-FNA.

    1988

    Placed on display with Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society, Lasham Airport, Lasham, Hampshire, England.
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    14 July 2002


    Photographer: John Bennett

    20 November 2011

    To Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets Collection, Great Barrington Airport, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
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    Restored.
    Composite with parts from Meteors WM234 (nose) and VZ462 (rear fuselage).

    18 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo freshly repainted in RAF Suez-era colour scheme by Beech Restorations at Bruntingthorpe - No serial applied at the time of the photo

    9 March 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett

    16 April 2014

    Placed on display with Gloucestershire Aviation Collections Jet Age Museum, Staverton Airport, Gloucestershire, England.
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    16 September 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Staverton, Gloucestershire, England
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