Registration / Serial:A77-31
Aircraft Original Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Generic Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Version:Gloster Meteor F8
C/n (msn):[ WE903 ]
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Airport:Tocumwal (YTOC / TCW)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:3 September 1961
Photo by:John Hopton (via Ian McDonell)Contact
Photo ID:842018Submit Correction
View count: 36
Awaiting scrapping. RH Grant Trading set up a smelter at Tocumwal after World War II to melt down war surplus aircraft that had no civil application. As a former B-24 training base, Tocumwal could handle the largest aircraft in service with the RAAF. The smelter remained in operation until 1963 with Vampires and Meteors the final aircraft to be put through it. By then Tocumwal had become a civil airport. The nose door marked 793 on the photo of A77-31 is from A77-793 also scrapped at Tocumwal.
Registration / Serial:A77-31
Aircraft Version:Gloster Meteor F8
C/n (msn):[ WE903 ]
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Airport:Tocumwal (YTOC / TCW)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:3 September 1961
Photo by:John Hopton (via Ian McDonell)Contact
Registration / Serial:A77-31
Aircraft Original Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Generic Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Version:Gloster Meteor F8
C/n (msn):[ WE903 ]
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Airport:Tocumwal (YTOC / TCW)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:3 September 1961
Photo by:John Hopton (via Ian McDonell)Contact
Photo ID:842018Submit Correction
View count: 36
Awaiting scrapping. RH Grant Trading set up a smelter at Tocumwal after World War II to melt down war surplus aircraft that had no civil application. As a former B-24 training base, Tocumwal could handle the largest aircraft in service with the RAAF. The smelter remained in operation until 1963 with Vampires and Meteors the final aircraft to be put through it. By then Tocumwal had become a civil airport. The nose door marked 793 on the photo of A77-31 is from A77-793 also scrapped at Tocumwal.
Registration / Serial:A77-31
Aircraft Version:Gloster Meteor F8
C/n (msn):[ WE903 ]
Operator Titles:Australia - Air Force
City / Airport:Tocumwal (YTOC / TCW)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:3 September 1961
Photo by:John Hopton (via Ian McDonell)Contact