610 squadron Meteor F.4

[airbus320]

Hello all,

 

I am in the process of building the Classic Airframes Meteor F.4 in the markings of my local squadron, 610 based at Hooton Park. While there are plenty of pictures of their later Mk.8s there don’t seem to be many of their initial Mk.4s. The best I have found so far is this photo showing the back end of one behind one of their last Spitfires:

 

https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/16116136.fancy-renting-former-wwii-aircraft-hangar-ellesmere-port/

 

Unfortunately the serial is partially obscured! Does anybody have any better photos or a serial/aircraft letter combination that would help?
 

Thank you in advance,

 

Chris

[petetasker]

Hi Chris

 

I've just pm'd you copies of the 610 Sqn Meteor F.4 pages from Roger Lindsay's Cold War Shield Volume 1.

 

Hope it helps

 

Pete

[Rafdec]

Hello Airbus320,

 

According to Roger Lindsays COLD WAR SHIELD Vol.1 book, Meteor "E" Iis VZ436.

 

Steve

[airbus320]

Thank you gents! That’s exactly the info I need 👍

 

Chris

[AirLift]

VZ436 was my Father's Meteor - until it caught the vortex of the plane in front of it and crashed on landing - https://imgur.com/a/9fSoAhr (or https://imgur.com/FBM7aEj) - he would have walked away but a carbon tetrachloride fire extinguisher was fired into his eyes as he was sitting in the cockpit, which put him in hospital.