Gloster Meteor NF11 (RAF code WM167)

Adrian Pingstone

Privately-owned Gloster Meteor NF11 (RAF code WM167)

Classic Jet Air Show, Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England, in June 2005. On the UK civilian register as G-LOSM. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1952 at their Baginton (Coventry) factory. Into RAF service 1952, left RAF service 1975.

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