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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor T.7(mod)
    Last Military Serial:WF877 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:G-BPOA
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor T.7(mod) sn WF877 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor T.7 by Gloster at Hucclecote, Glos.

    18 July 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WF877.

    November 1953

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    April 1964

    To Delivered to Martin-Baker Ltd, Chalgrove.

    Converted to a Meteor T.7(mod).
    While with Martin-Baker modified for ejector seat trials whereby the canopy enabled in-flight ejections (both dummy and live) from the rear cockpit.

    June 1966

    To Flight Refuelling Ltd, Tarrant Rushton, Dorset.
    Used as a ground running test bed for overhauled Derwent engines.

    1 February 1974

    To Torbay Aircraft Museum, Higher Blagdon, Devon.

    16 March 1989

    To Aces High Ltd/Mike Woodley, North Weald, Epping with new c/r G-BPOA (GLOSTER METEOR T7, WF877).

    12 May 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Aces High, North Weald

    From 1994 to 1996

    Placed on static display at North Weald.

    5 June 1996

    Civil registration, G-BPOA, cancelled.

    1996

    To Aces High.

    1996

    Transported by ground.
    Trucked to Kemble.

    From 1997 to 1997

    Transferred to No. 39 Restoration Group, North Weald.

    By March 1999


    Photographer: Unknown

    By 2000

    Stripped for parts and dumped dismantled at Kemble.

    2001

    Transported by ground.
    Hulk moved to Washington, Sussex.

    13 January 2013


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed in open storage with the IWM at Duxford, UK on 27 January 2013.

    July 2018

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to Duxford.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    From 2018 to 2019

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    18 October 2018

    Collected from Duxford storage.

    5 February 2023


    Photographer: Chris Wood
    Notes: Seen at Pima, Appears to have been restored to represent an NF11/13 https://pimaair.org/museum-aircraft/gloster-meteor/
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Peter Nicholson
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