Airfix 1/48 Gloster Meteor FR.9

The Gloster Meteor is a British single-seater, twin-engine, full-metal fighter jet from the end of World War II. The flight of the prototype took place on March 5, 1943, and the machine began to hit the linear units in the summer of 1944. 

As the armed reconnaissance version of Britains first operational jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor FR.9 was based on the F.8 fighter version of the aircraft and replaced Spitfires and Mosquitos in this role. The extended nose housed a Williamson F.24 camera, which could be positioned to fire either forward, port of starboard facing. Its range was extended significantly by the addition of external wing and ventral fuel tanks.

• Scheme 1: WL263 208 Squadron Malta 1957
• Scheme 2: WB116/G RAF 2 squadron 1956