Aircraft Photo of 4460 | Gloster Meteor F8 (F-8) | Brazil - Air Force | AirHistory.net #499406
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:4460
Aircraft Original Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Generic Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Version:Gloster Meteor F8 (F-8)
C/n (msn):G5-361700
Operator Titles:Brazil - Air Force
Location
City / Airport:Rio de Janeiro - Campo Délio Jardim de MattosMap
Country:Brazil
Airport Codes:ICAO: SBAF   IATA: -   Local: -   Other: -
Collection:Museu Aeroespacial
 
Photo Date:17 September 2022
Photo by:Richard Vandervord
Photo ID: 499406
Photo Comment

Brazil operated some 70 Meteors and this was the last, assembled at Parque de Aeronáutica de São Paulo with a middle fuselage that had been delivered with the original aircraft and parts from others, serialled 4399 and posted to 1st/1st GAvCa on February 1971. Later that year it was re-serialled 4460 and was delivered to Musal for preservation on 22nd April 1974, marking the last flight of a Brazilian Meteor. It was the only one to be operated in camouflage.

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