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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor T.7/8
    Last Military Serial:WL419 MoD
    Construction Number:G5/423772
    Last Civil Registration:G-JSMA
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor T.7/8 sn WL419 MoD c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd, Denham, Uxbridge

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

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

    20 August 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WL419.

    August 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n WL419.
    Operated by Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd, Denham, Uxbridge, from Chalgrove Airfield.

    October 1964

    Converted to a Meteor T.7/8.

    Used for ejector seat trials at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.

    September 1989


    Photographer: Unknown

    13 June 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    13 June 1992


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gloster Meteor T.7 Special, callsign Martin 01, on static display at the 1992 Boscombe Down Airshow

    August 1992


    Photographer: Unknown

    By June 1993


    Photographer: Unknown

    25 May 2016

    To Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd, Denham, Uxbridge with new c/r G-JSMA.
    Operated with markings: WL419
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     LAAS International Aviation News and Review
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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