Gloster Meteor Mk.8 - Mk.7 combination G-ANSO

Gloster Meteor Mk.8 - Mk.7 combination (ex GAF) G-ANSO, at the 1954 SBAC Farnborough air-show. Built as an F Mk.8 airframe with strengthened outer wings, the Ground Attack Fighter (GAF) aka Reaper, was first flown, as G-AMCJ, on 4 September 1950 at Moreton Valence by Jim Cooksey, appearing at the 1950 SBAC Farnborough air-show very soon afterwards. Extensive flying and weapons firing trials failed to secure an order so ACMJ had the forward fuselage replaced with that of a Meteor T Mk.7 in 1954 and registered as G-ANSO, retaining the strengthened wings and wing-tip fuel tanks of the GAF. G-ANSO was modified again in 1959, with a T Mk.7 rear fuselage and outer wings, for Svensk Flygtjanst AB (Swedair Ltd), as SE-DCC

Afterwards Air-show Airframe Appearing Combination Cooksey Extensive Failed Farnborough Flown Fuselage Gloster Meteor Modified Moreton Reaper Registered Replaced Retaining Sbac Secure Strengthened Svensk Valence Wing-tip

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