WL123/H, No.111 Squadron, RAF, North Weald - The first jet fighter was the Messerschmitt Me 262,piloted by Fritz Wendel. It was the fastest conventional airplane of WWII (only the rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was faster). About the same time the United Kingdom produced the Gloster Meteor, which made up the first operational jet fighter squadron in 1944. Following its activities during WWII, No. 111 Sq. disbanded in December 1947. On December 2, 1953, No. 111 Sq. was reformed in its own right as a fighter unit equipped with Meteor F.Mk.8s at North Weald, Essex. Hunters replaced the Meteors in June1955, and during this period it provided one of the RAF's most famous acrobatic display teams, The Black Arrows. In 1958, the squadron set a record which still stands when it preformed a formation loop consisting of 22 aircraft.

Info: Meteor F.Mk 8 Diecast Model RAF No.111 Sqn, RAF North Weald, England, 1954