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Gloster Meteor

1943 fighter aircraft family; Britain's first jet fighter
Class type of: first-generation jet fighter, land-based fighter monoplane, single-seat fighter Q140318

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
aircraft family

Population and size

Height
+3.96[16]
Length
+12.5[15]
More facts +11
Subclass of
first-generation jet fighter, land-based fighter monoplane, single-seat fighter[5][6][7]
Air Ministry specification ID
F9/40[13]
Country of origin
United Kingdom[8]
First flight
March 5, 1943[10]
Manufacturer
Gloster Aircraft Company[4]
Operator
Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force[2][3]
Powered by
turbojet[9]
Service entry
July 27, 1944[11]
Service retirement
1980[12]
Total produced
+3947[14]
Wingspan
+13.1[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gloster Meteor en Meteor jet en Meteor fighter en Meteor ar غلوستر ميتيور cs Meteor da Meteor de Meteor es Meteor fa گلاستر متئور fr Meteor he גלוסטר מטאור it Meteor ja グロスター ミーティア ko 글로스터 미티어 nl Gloster Meteor pl Gloster Meteor sv Meteor zh 告羅士打流星式戰機 zh 流星战斗机
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85084309
GND ID
4230262-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gloster Meteor F8, UK - Air Force AN2059465.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
03170733n
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/Gloster-Meteor
Freebase ID
/m/0bqpz
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Gloster_Meteor
NL CR AUT ID
ph777784
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987012431020705171
Topic's main category
Category:Gloster Meteor

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🔗 Connections
Operator 2
Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force
Country of origin 1
United Kingdom
Manufacturer 1
Gloster Aircraft Company
Powered by 1
turbojet
Subclass of 1
first-generation jet fighter
← FactGrid item ID 1
Wiry-au-Mont
← SNARC ID 1
British War Office
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Summary

Gloster Meteor is an aircraft family[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'br', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'e
    GND ID → 4230262-6
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → —
    Instance of → aircraft family
    Total produced → {'amount': '+3947'}
    Height → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+3.96'}
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987012431020705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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