The Gloster Javelin was an "all-weather" interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. It was a large designed for night and bad weather operations. This was the last aircraft to bear the Gloster name.

The Javelin entered service with the RAF in 1956 with No. 46 Squadron RAF based at RAF Odiham, and at its peak (in the years 1959 to 1962), equipped 14 squadrons. After 1962, numbers dropped rapidly and, by 1964, only four squadrons were flying the type.

The last of the type was withdrawn from service in 1968 with the disbandment of 60 Squadron at RAF Tengah at the end of April 1968. One aircraft remained flying with the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Boscombe Down until 24 January 1975.

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This model, by Mike Stone, represents a Javelin of 11 Squadron based at RAF Wunstorf, Germany.