A working Meteor in Buenos Aires city!

Sorry if I have missed something, Meteors are not my speciality, but what happened to EE531? I am assuming that it is no longer at Pebble Mill. Did EE531 have a wartime career?

Firstly my apologies – I made a mistake. We moved EE531 from Lasham to Meteor Ford Ltd in Birmingham first for temporary exhibition then on to Weston Park.

Now, DaveR – EE531 is the Meteor F.4 owned by and on display at the Midland Air Museum. The Midland Aircraft Preservation Society purchased it for £175 in 1972 and we had heck of a job to raise that amount. Some of it was by loans from members but most of it from Meteor Ford in exchange for displaying it at their showrooms. Can’t remember offhand when it was delivered to the R.A.F. but think it was after end of the war. It spent most of it’s service life in experimental work ending up with the R.A.E. at Lasham being used for radio aerial trials. It’s official history (Form ?) says it was used for folding wing trials but we could never find any evidence of the engineering that would have had to have been carried out for such trials.

Roger Smith.

Gloster Meteor F.4 C-041 (G5/141 (?) ). I am not sure what the question mark refers to.

I imagine that it is not confirmed that the c/n (construction number) is G5/141 – company F4/T7 prototype demonstrator G-AIDC was, apparently, G5/100.

Flood

Yes it is, it belongs to a technical school not far away from Moron in BsAs..

There have some other airframes of which I’ll post some more pictures later. I’ve just checked another pic and the serial is “553”

Funnily enough I wrote to Air Britain about membership and they sent me some old magazine samples which arrived this morning. In the Air Britain News dated December 2003 is a piece about the move of the Aeroparque Museum to Moron. It lists several aircraft with one Gloster Meteor and gives the following info about it – Gloster Meteor F.4 C-041 (G5/141 (?) ). I am not sure what the question mark refers to. :confused:

Sorry if I have missed something, Meteors are not my speciality, but what happened to EE531? I am assuming that it is no longer at Pebble Mill. Did EE531 have a wartime career?

Brilliant.

I visited Moron a month or so back. Rather like Hendon, a public museum in a residential area. They should be pulling the Lincoln indoors as birds have started to turn the bomb bays into a home!

Shouldn’t take long to track the people that have the Meteor down and the Argentinians are normally very good with historic information.

Let me know if you need any help with the Spanish language if anyone does plan to get in contact.

Suerte amigos

APC104

Yes there is a tank in there, I guess he’s standing on it?

The identity I think was serial number “553”…

It’s a long time ago but I remember taking the tank out of Meteor F.4 EE531 at Lasham to move it Weston Park, Shrops. and I’m sure it took up the whole space from wingspars up to the top of the fuselage.

The tank never got put back in (I’ve written elsewhere about the problem with the lorry driver) and, I think, was left behind at Weston when EE531 moved onto BBC, Pebble Mill.

The reason I am interested in this one’s identity is the fact we took great pride in our belief that EE531 was the oldest surviving Meteor (The prototype at Cosford is, technically, a Gloster F9/40). However we later became aware of F.4s in Argentina that might be older.

Roger Smith.

Yes it is, it belongs to a technical school not far away from Moron in BsAs..

There have some other airframes of which I’ll post some more pictures later. I’ve just checked another pic and the serial is “553”

wow, fabulous – any idea of an identity?

Well, you have a choice of 100, the number that were supplied to Argentina. Some remaining are C-029, I-090 and C-025. From the photo, the collection of aircraft could be part of a technical school? :confused:

Whereabouts in Buenos Aires was this? I was working down there a few years back and I remember visiting the museum at the Jorge Newberry aeropark. Very interesting.

Yes there is a tank in there, I guess he’s standing on it?

The identity I think was serial number “553”…

wow, fabulous – any idea of an identity?

When they run it up I wonder how they fuel it – the space rear of the cockpit where the young man is sat should be filled by the fuel tank.

Roger Smith.