Gloster Meteor Night Fighter

Skylarc Ref V122550

Expected Auction End Time: 22nd August 2021 7:07pm

The first British jet fighter and the Allies' only ­jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during the Second World War.
Meteor NF.14
NF.11 with new two-piece blown canopy rather than the heavy-framed version. It also had a longer nose giving a length of 51 ft 4 in. Prototype modified from an NF.11 was first flown 23 October 1953 and was followed by 100 production aircraft built by Armstrong Whitworth for the Royal Air Force.
On removable wire stand