Very large airframe structure part with rubber block connector with green and red paintwork,very clean from RAF Gloster meteor of 616 squadron recovered from a pit of buried parts at Airfield at Melsbroek,Belgium

This is a rare to find Airframe structure section which is in lovely clean condition with all its green and red paint remains from a RAF Gloster meteor of 616 squadron. The aluminium and rubber made part which is a sold rubber block connector couple of parts still rivted together and still with all of its original colours lovely and clean it is still very solid with original paintwork. The part has been ripped off a plane but is in very nicely cleaned condition perfect to display or any collection and is a very large part at 12 inches long by 7 inches wide in size. The part was used by RAF Gloster Meteor of 616 Squadron recovered from a pit of buried parts left by the RAF at the Airfield at Melsbroek in Belgium where they were stationed in early 1945.The part comes with 2xA5 laminated information sheets.

In January 1945 and in February a detachment of Gloster Meteor ‘s was deployed to Melsboek near Brussels in Belgium. It was intended as a defence against Messerschmitt 262’s but in the event they did not ever face them. In early April the complete squadron moved to the Netherlands.

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