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The Gloster Meteor is a twin-engined jet fighter, the first jet aircraft to serve with the RAF and the only Allied jet aircraft to reach combat in World War II. Almost 4,000 were produced, mostly in service with the RAF between 1944 and 1965. Meteors also served with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), whose aircraft saw action in the Korean War; other users included the Argentinian, Brazilian, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Ecuadorian, French and Israeli air forces. Many are preserved but only five are airworthy. ==Argentina== The first export order for Meteors came from Argentina, who received 100 F.4s. The first 50 were ex-RAF, the second 50 new. The Fuerza Aérea Argentina (FAA) identified aircraft with a number which remained the same throughout the life of the airframe, preceded by a letter indicating the role. From purchase in the late 1940s to about 1963 the Meteors were used as interceptors, letter ''I'', and hence serialled e.g. ''I-025''. After that, they were deployed as fighter bombers, letter ''C'', and the same aircraft exampled before became ''C-025''. A few, rebuilt aircraft did change number. ;Stored or under restoration * Meteor F.4 ''I-029'', ex-''EE537'', being restored for the Museo Regional Interfuerzas, Santa Romana, San Luis. ;On display〔 * Meteor F.4 ''I-002'', ex'' RA386'', displayed on plinth in Merlo, Buenos Aires. Painted as ''C-051''. * Meteor F.4 ''I-005'', ex-''RA390'', displayed on plinth, Museum of Independence, Tandil, Buenos Aires. * Meteor F.4 ''I-010'', ex-''RA393'', School of Education (ENET no.4), Quilmes, Buenos Aires. Used as teaching aid. * Meteor F.4 ''I-014'', ex-''EE575'', displayed on plinth in Goya, Corrientes. * Meteor F.4 ''I-019'', ex-''EE553'', displayed on plinth at the Northern Roundabout of the Avenue Spinetto Santa Rosa, La Pampa. Painted as ''I-021'', condition poor. * Meteor F.4 ''I-025'', ex-''EE532'', displayed on plinth on the Avenue of the Air Force, outside the Escuela de Aviación Militar, Córdoba. * Meteor F.4 ''I-027'', ex-''EE527'', Museo Regional Interfuerzas, Santa Romana, San Luis. It is the oldest Meteor airframe surviving anywhere, for the first 8 prototypes ''DG202-9/G'', the first of which is preserved in the UK, did not bear the name. * Meteor F.4 ''I-031'', ex-''EE588'', Liceo Aeronáutico Militar de Funes, Funes, Santa Fe. Ogden locates this aircraft at the Aeroclub Las Parerjas, Las Parjas.〔 * Meteor F.4 ''I-038'', ex-''EE587'', Junin Aeroclub, Junin, Buenos Aires. * Meteor F.4 ''I-041'', ex-''EE586'', Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina, Morón, Buenos Aires.〔 * Meteor F.4 ''C-051'', painted as C-002, Aeroclub Baradero, Baradero. * Meteor F.4 ''I-057'', displayed on plinth Loreto, Santiago del Estero. Ogden locates this aircraft at the Monumento de la VI Brigada Tandil, Buenos Aires.〔 The earliest surviving Argentine built aircraft.〔 * Meteor F.4 ''I-071'', painted as C-073, Collectión de la Escuela de Educación Téchnica 8 Jorge Newbery, San Justo, Buenos Aires. * Meteor F.4 ''I-073'', gate guardian (on tower to the left) at Mar del Plata Air Base. Painted as ''C-071''. * Meteor F.4 ''I-084'', Resistencia, Chaco. * Meteor F.4 ''I-088'', Aeroclub Chivilcoy, Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires. * Meteor F.4 ''I-090'', displayed on plinth, Plaza Batalla de Salta, Salta City. * Meteor F.4 ''I-093'', gate guardian on plinth, VII Brigada Aerea, Jose C. Paz, Buenos Aires. Painted as ''C-099''. * Meteor F.4 ''I-094'', Grupo de Vigilancia, Merlo, Buenos Aires. * Meteor F.4 ''I-095'', gate guardian on plinth, Edificio Condor, Buenos Aires. * Meteor F.4 ''I-099'', on plinth at Presidente Perón International Airport, Neuquen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of surviving Gloster Meteors」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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