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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor TT.20
    Last Military Serial:H-508 RDAF
    Construction Number:AW5549
    Last Civil Registration:D-CAKU
    Compressed ID:Gloster Meteor TT.20 sn H-508 RDAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Musee du Chateau de Savigny les Beaune, Savigny-les-Beaune, Beaune, Bourgogne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor NF.11.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WM391.
    The serial was assigned, but the airframe was not actually put into service with the RAF. While still on the production line it was diverted to the Danish Air Force.

    23 December 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Danish Air Force with s/n 51-508.
    The delivery date is provided.

    New serial number assigned: H-508 RDAF

    From 1958 to 1959

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Danish Air Force.

    To Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd, Coventry.

    1958

    Converted to a Meteor TT.20.
    Converted by Armstrong Whitworth.

    From 6 August 1962 to 1966

    To Svensk Flygtjnst AB/Swedish Flight Service with new c/r SE-DCH.

    Circa 1966

    To unknown owner.

    29 October 1969

    Civil registration D-CAKU reserved but not taken up.

    1969

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to Gosselies, Belgium, however, as it was suspected they were to be flown out of Europe to Biafra, for use in the civil war in Nigeria at the time, they were grounded.

    From 1969 to 1975

    Stored at Gosselies, Belgium.

    1984

    To Brussels Air Museum, Jubelpark, Etterbeek, Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.
    After 19 years of storage in the open in Gosselies, Belgium.
    View the Location Dossier

    June 1988

    To Musee du Chateau de Savigny les Beaune, Savigny-Les-Beaune, Beaune, Bourgogne.
    View the Location Dossier

    28 August 2007


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    30 June 2012


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Savigny Les Beaune

    30 June 2012


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Savigny Les Beaune
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