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

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

Bangladesh

Stored or under restoration
  • HAL Ajeet at Bangladesh Air Force Museum, Dhaka[2]
On display

Finland

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

India

Airworthy (2008)
  • Gnat F1 E265 Indian Air Force Historic Flight, Palam, Delhi[4]
On display
A Gnat F1 preserved at the Indian Air Force Museum , Palam , New Delhi
Stored or under restoration
  • Gnat F1 at Air Force Bhararti School Display[13]
  • Gnat F1 at Ambala Air Force Station War Memorial[14]
  • Gnat F1 at Bagdogra Air Force Station Museum[15]
  • Gnat F1 at Bareilly Air Force Station Museum[15]
  • Gnat F1 Central Air Command Headquarters Museum, Allahabad[16]
  • Gnat F1 at Chandigarh Air Force Station Museum[17]
  • Gnat F1 at Defence Services Staff College Display Museum, Wellington, Tamil Nadu[18]
  • Gnat F1 Painted as DJ1992 at Diamond Jubilee Museum, Midnapur[19]
  • Gnat F1 E232 at Diamond Jubilee Museum, Midnapur[19]
  • Gnat F1 E1046 at Hasimara Air Force Station Museum[20]
  • Gnat F1 E1205 at Indian Air Force Historic Flight, Palam, Delhi[4]
  • Gnat F1 E1246 at Indian Air Force Historic Flight, Palam, Delhi[4]
  • Gnat F1 at Indian Air Force Technical College Collection, Bangalore[21]
  • Gnat F1 E323 at Indian Air Force Technical College Collection, Bangalore[21]
  • Gnat F1 at Lawrence School Memorial, Lovedale[6]
  • Gnat F1 E261 at Maintenance Command Headquarters Display, Nagpur[7]
  • Gnat F1 E1059 at Mayo College Memorial, Ajmer[7]
  • Gnat F1 E247 at National Defence Academy, Pune[22]
  • Gnat F1 at No.9 Airmen Selection Centre Memorial, Bhubaneshwar[23]
  • Gnat F1 at Southern Air Command Headquarters Museum. Trivandrum[24]
  • Gnat F1 IE1078 at Tambaram Air Force Station Museum[25]
  • HAL Ajeet E1048 at Defence Services Staff College Display Museum, Wellington, Tamil Nadu[18]
  • HAL Ajeet E1956at Diamond Jubilee Museum, Midnapur[19]
  • HAL Ajeet IE1241 at Doon School Memorial,[19]
  • HAL Ajeet at Eastern Air Command Headquarters Museum, Shillong[19]
  • HAL Ajeet at Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Hyderabad[26]
  • HA Ajeet painted as E1972 at St Mary's School Memorial, Pune[25]

Gnat f1 at la martiniere college, lucknow

  • Gnat F1 at Jawahar bal bhavan in

Trissivaperoor Kerala

New Zealand

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

Gnat F1 IE1083

Serbia

Gnat F.1 at the Belgrade Aviation Museum
On display

United Kingdom

The three Gnats of The Heritage Aircraft Trust display at the 2014 RAF Waddington International Airshow
Airworthy
  • Gnat T1 G-FRCE at North Weald Aerodrome[29]
  • Gnat T1 G-NATY painted as XR537 of the Royal Air Force at Bournemouth Airport[30]
  • 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
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[42]
  • Gnat T1 XP505 at Science Museum, Wroughton Aerodrome, Wiltshire[43]
  • Gnat T1 XP540 at Bruntingthorpe Airfield[29]
  • Gnat T1 XR541 at North Weald Airfield[29]

United States

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.[46]
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

  1. "Out of Service British Military Aircraft". Demobbed.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  2. Ogden 2008, p.57
  3. MacConnacher, p. 79
  4. Ogden 2008, p.96
  5. Ogden 2008, p.97
  6. Ogden 2008, p.100
  7. 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. Ogden 2008, p.84
  16. Ogden 2008, p.87
  17. Ogden 2008, p.88
  18. Ogden 2008, p.89
  19. Ogden 2008, p.90
  20. Ogden 2008, p.93
  21. Ogden 2008, p.98
  22. Ogden 2008, p.104
  23. Ogden 2008, p.107
  24. Ogden 2008, p.111
  25. Ogden 2008, p.112
  26. Ogden 2008, p.103
  27. Ogden 2008, p.221
  28. Ogden 2009, p.505
  29. Ellis 2016, p. 59
  30. Ellis 2016, p. 50
  31. Ellis 2016, p. 194
  32. Ellis 2016, p. 80
  33. Ellis 2016, p. 74
  34. Ellis 2016, p. 308
  35. Ellis 2016, p. 66
  36. Ellis 2016, p. 71
  37. Ellis 2016, p. 134
  38. Ellis 2016, p. 186
  39. Ellis 2016, p. 146
  40. Ellis 2016, p. 17
  41. Ellis 2016, p. 193
  42. Ellis 2016, p. 96
  43. Ellis 2016, p. 286
  44. "Gnat - Vietnam War Flight Museum". Vietnamwarflight.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  45. ""Flying and Static Aircraft"". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  46. ""FO141 Gnat"". Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.

Bibliography

  • 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.

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