List of surviving Folland Gnats

The Folland Gnat was a single-seat jet fighter and training aircraft that served with the British, Finnish, Indian and Yugoslav air forces. The HAL Ajeet, or Gnat 2, is also included.

Folland Gnat

Australia

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Stored or under restoration
  • Gnat T1 VH-XSO painted as XS101 at Melbourne, Victoria[1]

Bangladesh

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Stored or under restoration
On display

Finland

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Folland Gnat Mk.1 (GN-101) in Airforce Museum of Central Finland
stored or under restoration

India

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Airworthy (2008)
On display
 
A Gnat F1 preserved at the Indian Air Force Museum , Palam , New Delhi
Stored or under restoration

Gnat f1 at la martiniere college, lucknow

  • Gnat F1 at Jawahar bal bhavan in

Trissivaperoor Kerala

New Zealand

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Under restoration
  • Gnat T1 XR987, now registered as ZK-RAJ. XR987 was one of the original YellowJacks aircraft and one of the founding aircraft of the Red Arrows of the Royal Air Force. Now at Tauranga Airport, New Zealand

Pakistan

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Gnat F1 IE1083

Serbia

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Gnat F.1 at the Belgrade Aviation Museum
On display

United Kingdom

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The three Gnats of The Heritage Aircraft Trust display at the 2014 RAF Waddington International Airshow
Airworthy
  • Gnat T1 G-FRCE (XS104) at North Weald Aerodrome[29]
  • Gnat T1 G-NATY painted as XR537 of the Royal Air Force at the Heritage Aircraft Trust, North Weald Aerodrome, Essex
  • Gnat T1 G-RORI painted as XR538 of the Royal Air Force at North Weald Aerodrome[29]
  • Gnat T1 G-MOUR painted as XR991 of the Royal Air Force at North Weald Aerodrome[29]
On display
 
Gnat F1 at Midland Air Museum
  • Gnat F1 XK724 at the RAF Museum Cosford[30]
  • Gnat F1 XK740 at the Solent Sky Museum, Southampton, Hampshire[31]
  • Gnat F1 XK741 painted as GN-101 of the Finnish Air Force at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry
  • Gnat T1 XM693 at the former Hamble Aerodrome, Hampshire[32]
  • Gnat T1 XM697 at Reynard Garden Centre, Carluke, South Lanarkshire[33]
  • Gnat T1 XP502 painted as XR540 at Cotswold Airport[34]
  • Gnat T1 XP516 at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Farnborough, Hampshire[35]
  • Gnat T1 XP534 painted as XR993 at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire[36]
  • Gnat T1 XP542 at Air Cadets at Southampton, Hampshire.[31]
  • Gnat T1 XR534 at Newark Air Museum[37]
  • Gnat T1 XR571 at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, West Sussex
  • Gnat T1 XR574 at Trenchard Museum, RAF Halton[38]
  • Gnat T1 XR977 at RAF Museum Cosford[39]
  • Gnat T1 XS104 at North Weald Airfield
Stored or under restoration
  • Gnat F1 G-SLYR marked as E296 Indian Air Force[29]
  • Gnat T1 XM708 at Blue Bird Project, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire[40]
  • Gnat T1 XP505 at Science Museum, Wroughton Aerodrome, Wiltshire[41]
  • Gnat T1 XP540 at Bruntingthorpe Airfield[29]
  • Gnat T1 XR541 at Bournemouth Aviation Museum, Dorset

United States

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Folland Gnat T.1 'XR572/N572XR' in the markings of the RAF Red Arrows at the Jeffco open house in June 2006
Airworthy
On display
  • Gnat T1 XM694 at Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona[1]
  • Gnat F1 former Indian Air Force E-1076 at March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California.[44]
Stored or under restoration
  • Gnat T1 N107XS at Greenwich, Connecticut[1]
  • Gnat T1 N109XS at Front Range Airport, South Carolina[1]
  • Gnat T1 N117SH at Lawrenceville, Georgia[1]
  • Gnat T1 N6145X at Livermore, California[1]
  • Gnat T1 N698XM painted as Royal Air Force XM698 at St Cloud, Florida[1]
  • Gnat T1 N705XM at St Cloud, Florida[1]
  • Gnat T1 N81298 at Front Range Airport, South Carolina[1]
  • Gnat T1 N998XR at Front Range Airport, South Carolina[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Out of Service British Military Aircraft". Demobbed.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  2. ^ Ogden 2008, p.57
  3. ^ MacConnacher, p. 79
  4. ^ a b c d e f Ogden 2008, p.96
  5. ^ a b c Ogden 2008, p.97
  6. ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.100
  7. ^ a b c Ogden 2008, p.102
  8. ^ Ogden 2008, p.105
  9. ^ Ogden 2008, p.108
  10. ^ "Folland Gnat - Survivor E325".
  11. ^ Ogden 2008, p.94
  12. ^ Ogden 2008, p.99
  13. ^ Ogden 2008, p.82
  14. ^ Ogden 2008, p.83
  15. ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.84
  16. ^ Ogden 2008, p.87
  17. ^ Ogden 2008, p.88
  18. ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.89
  19. ^ a b c d e Ogden 2008, p.90
  20. ^ Ogden 2008, p.93
  21. ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.98
  22. ^ Ogden 2008, p.104
  23. ^ Ogden 2008, p.107
  24. ^ Ogden 2008, p.111
  25. ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.112
  26. ^ Ogden 2008, p.103
  27. ^ Ogden 2008, p.221
  28. ^ Ogden 2009, p.505
  29. ^ a b c d e Ellis 2016, p. 59
  30. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 194
  31. ^ a b Ellis 2016, p. 80
  32. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 74
  33. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 308
  34. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 66
  35. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 71
  36. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 134
  37. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 186
  38. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 17
  39. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 193
  40. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 96
  41. ^ Ellis 2016, p. 286
  42. ^ "Gnat - Vietnam War Flight Museum". Vietnamwarflight.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  43. ^ ""Flying and Static Aircraft"". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  44. ^ ""FO141 Gnat"". Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.

Bibliography

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  • Ellis, Ken (2016). Wrecks and Relics 25th Edition. Manchester, England: Crecy Publishing. ISBN 978 191080 9037.
  • MacConnacher, Stuart (May–June 1999). "Round-Out". Air Enthusiast (81): 79. ISSN 0143-5450.
  • Ogden, Bob (2009). Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe. Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 978 0 85130 418 2.
  • Ogden, Bob (2008). Aviation Museums and Collections of the Rest of the World. Tonbridge, Kent: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0-851-30-394-9.