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.