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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.4
    Last Military Serial:VT229 RAF
    Construction Number:VT229
    Last Civil Registration:N229VT
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor F.4 sn VT229 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor F.4.

    4 August 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n VT229.


    Photographer: Unknown

    From 1954 to 1976

    To RAF Colerne Museum, Chippenham, Wiltshire.

    1976

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
    Placed in open storage.

    20 June 1976


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: VT229 : Gloster Meteor F.4 : ex-RAF - In storage at Duxford

    24 April 1983

    To Newark Air Museum. Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire.

    10 April 1989


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: VT229 60 whilst at Newark UK

    30 August 1991

    To Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL with new c/r N229VT.

    To Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    16 February 2010

    To Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N229VT.

    7 May 2021

    To Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N229VT.
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