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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor T.7/8
    Last Military Serial:WA638 RAF
    Construction Number:G5/356539
    Last Civil Registration:G-JWMA
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor T.7/8 sn WA638 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd, Denham, Uxbridge

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    Dates

    Event

    1949

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

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WA638.

    1979

    Withdrawn from use.

    To Martin Baker Aircraft Company, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.
    Utilised for flight testing ejector seats.

    Converted to a Meteor T.7/8.
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    4 September 2015

    To Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd, Denham, Uxbridge with new c/r G-JWMA.
    Continues to operate from Chalgrove in Oxfordshire.

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Yeovilton International Air Day 2017.(UK)

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day


    Photographer: Unknown
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     Thomas Delvoye
    Robert Nichols
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