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Serial #: WK800 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: N/A |
Model(s): Meteor F.8 Meteor U.16 Drone Name: None Status: Displayed Last info: 2015 |
Built as a Meteor F.8.
Delivered to Royal Air Force as WK800.
- BOC: September 4, 1952.
- SOC: 1960.
- Converted to Meteor U.16.
Transferred to Royal Australian Air Force as A77-876, 1960.
- To Fairey Aviation Ltd, Bankstown, New South Wales and converted to U.21.
- Assigned to No. 1 Air Target Unit, Woomera, 1963.
-- Used as pilotless target.
- Transferred to No. 2 Air Target Unit, RAAF Everts Field, 1965.
-- Served as a drone.
Returned to Royal Air Force as WK800.
- BOC: July 1969.
- SOC: October 2004.
- Contracted to Flight Refuelling Ltd, Tarrant, Rushton, 1970.
-- Converted to Meteor U.16.
- Last flight, October 11, 2004.
Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, RAF Boscombe Down, Salisbury, UK, 2004-2015.
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Source(s): The Meteor Flight Aerial Visuals |
Photo Source(s): Duncan Curtis Research Assistance: - |
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