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Constructed as a Meteor F.4. |
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August 1946 |
Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n EE549. |
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August 1946 |
Transferred to RAF High Speed Flight, RAF Tangmere. |
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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. |
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June 1952 |
Transferred to RAF Cranwell. |
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New serial number assigned: 7008M RAF |
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1972 |
To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England. |
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13 September 1980 |
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By September 1994 |
Loaned to Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex-West, England. |
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2006 |
Credits Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier... Print Sources European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden Internet Sources Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society Individual Contributors Robert Nichols |
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