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c/n AW.2163. Built as an NF.11 in 1953 for the RAF with the military serial WM261. Later converted to become the prototype NF.14. It was transferred to the Edinburgh based Ferranti Flying Unit in 1960 and civil registered as G-ARCX, making its first civil flight in 1963. Ferranti used it as a radar test airframe and as a company transport. The paint scheme of white with a red stripe led to the aircraft being nicknamed ‘Mentadent’ after the brand of toothpaste. It last flew in June 1968 and joined the collection at East Fortune in August 1973. Currently on display in the Military Aviation Hangar at the National Museum of Flight (part of National Museums Scotland). East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian, Scotland.

13th September 2017
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Source Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF.14 ‘G-ARCX’
Author Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location55° 59′ 45.52″ N, 2° 43′ 17.16″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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