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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor NF.11
    Last Military Serial:NF11-1 ALA
    Last Civil Registration:F-ZABH
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor NF.11 sn NF11-1 ALA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Musee Europeen de lAviation de Chasse, Montelimar-Ancone, France, Ancone, Montelimar, Drome

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor NF.11.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WM296.
    Given UK serial WM296 but never taken up. Immediately transferred to Armee de lAir.

    January 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n NF11-1.

    January 1953

    Transferred to CEV, Bretigny-Sur-Orge, France.
    Utilised for testing of guided weapons.

    Assigned civil registration: F-ZABB
    During its career at CEV it was also allocated two civil registrations, F-ZABB and F-ZABH.

    Assigned civil registration: F-ZABH

    1967

    Fitted with auto-director nose extension.

    By 1976

    Markings Applied: NF11-1, 1
    Silver c/s, Day-glo bands on nose, aft fuselage, wings and tail, black engine nacelles, 1 on top of tail.

    20 June 1976


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: NF11-1 - Meteor NF.11 - French Air Force / Centre dEssais en Vol - Bretigny-sur-Orge

    27 July 1985

    Last flight.
    Flown by Colonel Francis Plessier - Bretigny to Brienne le Chateau.

    Circa July 1985

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Armee de l Air.

    By 17 June 1988

    Placed on display with Musee Aeronautique de Champagne, Brienne le Chateau, Champagne-Ardenne.
    Retained military serial.
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    17 June 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Le Brienne le Chateau Museum, France

    17 June 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    April 2001

    Placed on display with Musee Europeen de lAviation de Chasse, Montelimar-Ancone, France, Ancone, Montelimar, Drome.
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    21 April 2006


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Musee European de lAviation de Chasse, Montelimar-Ancone, France. Insufficient room to photograph whole aircraft including nose extension.

    21 April 2006


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Musee European de lAviation de Chasse, Montelimar-Ancone, France.

    23 May 2010


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    18 July 2023


    Photographer: Gunther Debiscop
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    AirFighters.com
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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