List of surviving Folland Gnats
Appearance
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.
Australia
[edit]- Stored or under restoration
- Gnat T1 VH-XSO painted as XS101 at Melbourne, Victoria[1]
Bangladesh
[edit]- Stored or under restoration
- HAL Ajeet at Bangladesh Air Force Museum, Dhaka[2]
- On display
- Gnat F1 at Liberation War Museum, Dhaka
Finland
[edit]- stored or under restoration
- Gnat F1 GN-101 at Finnish Airforce Museum near Jyväskylä Airport
- Gnat F1 GN-103 gateguard at Karelian Aviation Museum at Lappeenranta Airport
- Gnat F1 GN-104 gateguard at Finnish Airforce Museum near Jyväskylä Airport
- Gnat F1 GN-105 stored dismantled at the Finnish Aviation Museum near Vantaa Airport, Helsinki[3]
- Gnat F1 GN-106 at Karelian Aviation Museum at Lappeenranta Airport
- Gnat F1 GN-107 at Karhula Aviation Museum at Kymi airfield near Kotka
- Gnat F1 GN-110 on pole at the air defence memorial near gate to Jaeger Brigade Air Defence Battalion at Rovaniemi airfield.
- Gnat FR1 GN-112 at Päijät-Häme Aviation Museum at Vesivehmaa airfield, north of Lahti
- Gnat FR1 GN-113 stored disassembled at Helsinki-Malmi Airfield[1]
India
[edit]- Airworthy (2008)
- Gnat F1 E265 Indian Air Force Historic Flight, Palam, Delhi[4]
- On display
- Gnat F1 IE1059 at Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Delhi[5]
- Gnat F1 IE1205 at Indian Air Force Headquarters Display, Delhi[4]
- Gnat F1 IE1246 at Indian Air Force Headquarters Display, Delhi[4]
- Gnat F1 at Kerala State Science and Technology Museum, Thiruvananthapuram[6]
- Gnat F1 IE1062 at Martyr's Memorial, Dharamshala[7]
- Gnat F1 at Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon Memorial, Ludhiana[8]
- Gnat F1 E254 at Pragathi Maidan Defence Exhibition, New Delhi[9]
- Gnat F1 E325 at Diamond Garden, Chembur, Mumbai[10]
- HAL Ajeet E1975 at Indian Air Force Headquarters Display, Delhi[4]
- HAL Ajeet E1083 at Hindustan Aerospace War Memorial, Bangalore[11]
- HAL Ajeet IE1975 at Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Delhi[5]
- HAL Ajeet E2016 at Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Delhi[5]
- HAL Ajeet at Kangla Fort[12]
- HAL Ajeet GNAT E311 at The Lawrence School, Sanawar.
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Gnat F1 IE1083 at Pakistan Air Force Museum, Karachi[27]
Serbia
[edit]- On display
- Gnat F1 11601 at the Belgrade Aviation Museum[28]
United Kingdom
[edit]- 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 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
[edit]- Airworthy
- Gnat T1 N1CL of the Vietnam War Flight Museum at William P. Hobby Airport, Texas[42]
- Gnat T1 N19GT at Chino, California[43]
- Gnat T1 N316RF at San Diego, California[1]
- Gnat T1 N4347N at Fort Lauderdale, Florida[1]
- Gnat T1 N4367L at Austin, Texas[1]
- Gnat T1 N513X at Erie Municipal Airport, Colorado[1]
- Gnat T1 N533XP at Westchester County Airport, Connecticut[1]
- Gnat T1 N572XR painted as XR572 of the Royal Air Force at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Broomfield, Colorado[1]
- Gnat T1 N7CV at California City, California[1] (cancelled as exported to New Zealand 7 August 2019)
- Gnat T1 N7HY at Chino, California[1]
- Gnat T1 N8130N at Tallahassee Regional Airport, Florida[1]
- Gnat T1 N8130Q at Front Range Airport, Colorado[1]
- Gnat T1 N936FC at East Islip, New York[1]
- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.57
- ^ MacConnacher, p. 79
- ^ a b c d e f Ogden 2008, p.96
- ^ a b c Ogden 2008, p.97
- ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.100
- ^ a b c Ogden 2008, p.102
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.105
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.108
- ^ "Folland Gnat - Survivor E325".
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.94
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.99
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.82
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.83
- ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.84
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.87
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.88
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- ^ a b c d e Ogden 2008, p.90
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- ^ Ogden 2008, p.107
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.111
- ^ a b Ogden 2008, p.112
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.103
- ^ Ogden 2008, p.221
- ^ Ogden 2009, p.505
- ^ a b c d e Ellis 2016, p. 59
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 194
- ^ a b Ellis 2016, p. 80
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 74
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 308
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 66
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 71
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 134
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 186
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 17
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 193
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 96
- ^ Ellis 2016, p. 286
- ^ "Gnat - Vietnam War Flight Museum". Vietnamwarflight.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ ""Flying and Static Aircraft"". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ ""FO141 Gnat"". Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
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