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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.8
    Last Military Serial:I-189 KLu
    Construction Number:6468
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor F.8 sn I-189 KLu cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Nationale Militaire Museum Depot., Former Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, Utrecht

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor F.8.

    19 December 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n I-189.

    Transferred to 322 SQ, Twente AB.

    Transferred to 326 SQ, Leeuwarden AB.

    9 April 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force.

    Placed on display.
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    1968

    To Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, Kamp van Zeist, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    Circa 1971

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Woesdrecht AB, Woesdrecht/Huijbergen, Noord-Brabant.
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    30 September 1986

    Loaned to Aviodome National Aviation Museum, Schiphol, the Netherlands.

    Markings Applied: Diamond Four Aerobatic Team Colours

    Returned from loan to Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, Kamp van Zeist, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    Assigned to Gilze Rijen AB, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant for storage.
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    Markings Applied: 7E-5

    By February 1997

    To Nationale Militaire Museum Depot., Former Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    Ocassionaly used as a traveling exhibit.

    15 April 2012


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