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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor TT.20
    Last Military Serial:WM292 RN
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor TT.20 sn WM292 RN
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve collection - Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor NF.11.

    30 March 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WM292.

    Transferred to 527SQN.

    Transferred to 15MU.

    Circa August 1957

    Transferred to 5MU RAF Kemble.

    14 August 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WM292.
    At RNAS Lossiemouth.

    From 23 August 1957 to 10 February 1958

    Converted to a Meteor TT.20.
    At Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft (AWA) at Baginton/Bitteswell.

    Circa March 1958

    Transferred to Aircraft Holding Unit (AHU), Lossiemouth.

    22 May 1958

    Transferred to Airwork Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU), Hurn Airport, Bournemouth.

    22 May 1958

    Markings Applied: 041

    3 June 1959

    Transferred to Naval Air Radio Installation Unit (NARIU), RNAS Lee on Solent.

    17 June 1959

    Transferred to Airwork Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU), Hurn Airport, Bournemouth.

    24 March 1961

    Transferred to RNAY Belfast.
    For modifications.

    15 August 1961

    Transferred to AHU RNAS Brawdy.

    27 October 1961

    Transferred to Airwork Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU), Hurn Airport, Bournemouth.

    21 April 1966

    Transferred to NARIU, RNAS Lee on Solent.

    9 September 1966

    Transferred to Airwork Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU), Hurn Airport, Bournemouth.

    Circa December 1968

    Markings Applied: 841

    4 June 1969

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to RNAS Yeovilton for FAAM.

    24 July 1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.
    Handover to FAAM.

    24 July 1969

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum RNAS Yeovilton.

    October 1979

    Into NASU Yeovilton to be prepared for transfer to Portland for respray.

    1 August 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 1981. Gate Guard for the FAAM.

    21 June 1983

    Loaned to Wales Aircraft Museum, Cardiff Rhoose Airport.

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    17 June 1996

    Fuselage taken by road to Phoenix Aviation at Bruntingthorpe (closure of Wales Air Museum).

    24 June 1996

    Wings taken by road to Phoenix Aviation at Bruntingthorpe.

    23 March 1999

    Returned from loan to Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Into FAAM storage in RNAS Yeovilton Historic Flight hangar.

    11 January 2000

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
    Only the forward fuselage and cockpit section survives here.
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    30 March 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Cobham Hall, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

    30 March 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Cobham Hall, Yeovilton, Somerset, England


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    Fleet Air Arm Archive
    South Wales Aviation Group

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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