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    Airframe Family: Folland Gnat
    Latest Model:Gnat T.1
    Last Military Serial:XP502 RAF
    Construction Number:FL517
    Compressed ID:Folland Gnat T.1 sn XP502 RAF cn FL...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gnat T.1.

    24 August 1962

    First flight.

    2 November 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP502.

    7 November 1962

    Transferred to 4FTS, RAF Valley.
    First Gnat T1 to be allocated to 4FTS. Was never allocated to the Red Arrows.

    23 November 1977

    To Civilian Technical Training School, Saint Athan.
    Transferred to this school for ground instruction use.

    23 November 1977

    New serial number assigned: 8576M RAF

    To Everett Aero.
    Sold to Everett.

    By December 1999

    To Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England.
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    16 March 2000

    To Sproughton.

    3 May 2000

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to Sproughton.

    By 2009

    To Kemble Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England.
    Displayed in front of Control Tower.
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    29 May 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On static display at Kemble Airfield in 2009

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    By June 2014

    Markings Applied: XR540
    Painted in Red Arrows c/s with false serial XR540.

    20 June 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Cotswold Airport, Kemble
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Andy West
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