A backbone of the RAF has been given a dignified retirement in North Yorkshire.
The Gloster Javelin fighter has become the latest feature at the Yorkshire Air Museum, in Elvington.
Fifty years ago, it was the first delta-winged jet fighter and an all-weather interceptor crucial to the Air Force between 1956 and 1968.
The Elvington museum acted quickly to secure the plane after it was put up for sale.
Of 435 built, only nine remain in the world, one in South Africa and the others in the UK.
RAF Leeming, in North Yorkshire, has one acting as its gate guardian.
Updated: 11:02 Wednesday, February 07, 2001
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