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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.4
    Last Military Serial:EE549 RAF
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor F.4 sn EE549 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor F.4.

    August 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n EE549.

    August 1946

    Transferred to RAF High Speed Flight, RAF Tangmere.

    7 September 1946

    Group Captain Teddy Donaldson set a new world speed record of 615.78 mph in EE549 flying off the Sussex coast at Rustington.

    June 1952

    Transferred to RAF Cranwell.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    New serial number assigned: 7008M RAF

    1972

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    13 September 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Battle of Britain Day

    By September 1994

    Loaned to Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex-West, England.
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    2006


    Photographer: Andy West
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     Robert Nichols
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