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RNZAF Gloster Meteor T.7
WH206 & WL400

     
 

Gloster Meteor WL400 
No.14 "Y" Squadron, 
RNZAF, Nicosia, Cyprus
 via Brendan Cowan

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Serial c/n Aircraft history
WH206 ? Delivered 25 January 1952. With No.219 Squadron RAF.
To No.14 Squadron, Nicosia, Cyprus in October 1952.
Aircraft hired from RAF and stationed in Cyprus 1952-1955 as part of the Middle East Air Force and used for instrument flying practice.
Coded "Z".
Squadron strength of 2 aircraft initially until WH206 was replaced by Vampire T.11 WZ516.
Returned to RAF in November 1953 with No.6 Maintenance Command Communications Squadron and then to Station Flight Khormaksar.
Ran out of fuel and abandoned near Mogadishu, Somaliland on 20 January 1959.
WL400 ? Delivered 02 July 1952.
To No.14 Squadron, Nicosia, Cyprus in October 1952.
Aircraft hired from RAF and stationed in Cyprus 1952-1955 as part of the Middle East Air Force and used for instrument flying practice.
Coded "Y".
Squadron strength of 2 aircraft initially until WH206 was replaced by Vampire T.11.
Returned to RAF with Instrument Training Flight, Nicosia in March 1955 and then to Communications Flight Levant.
SOC with RAF on 28 May 1957.

Gloster Meteor WL400 
No.14 "Y" Squadron, 
RNZAF, Nicosia, Cyprus
 via Brendan Cowan

 
     

Author: Ivan Prince (Updated by Brendan Cowan)

Sources: RAF Aircraft WA100-WZ999 by James Halley. AHSNZ Journals 1967.

Emails: Martin Edwards, Brendan Cowan,

Updated 28 January 2014

     
     

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