Aircraft Photo of G-ASLW | Gloster Meteor NF14 | Rolls-Royce | AirHistory.net #557739
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:G-ASLW
Aircraft Original Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Generic Type:Gloster Meteor
Aircraft Version:Gloster Meteor NF14
C/n (msn):5814
Operator Titles:Rolls-Royce
Location
Location:Not known
Region / Country:Unknown Region, United Kingdom
 
Photo Date:January 1963 to September 1969
Photo from:Tim Spearman Collection
Photo ID: 557739
Photo Comment

Ex WS829, sold to Rolls Royce Ltd, Hucknall in September 1963 and flew with them until sale, in June 1969, to Target Towing Aircraft Ltd who intended to use the aircraft in Biafra. The aircraft crashed into the Atlantic while on delivery to Biafra, when it ran out of fuel en-route Funchal to Bissau on 28 September 1969.

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