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    Airframe Family: Folland Gnat
    Latest Model:Gnat T.1
    Last Military Serial:XP505 RAF
    Construction Number:FL520
    Latest Owner or Location:Science Museum, Wroughton, Swindon, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gnat T.1.

    21 September 1962

    First flight.

    30 November 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP505.

    7 January 1969

    Transferred to Ministry of Technology.

    By 1982

    Transferred to Flight Systems, RAE Bedford.

    18 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Airshow

    18 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    29 April 1983

    Last flight.
    Final flight by the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Thurleigh, Bedford.

    By 1986

    To Science Museum, Wroughton, Swindon, England.
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    Currently stored at Science Museum out station at Wroughton.

    30 August 1993


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Taken at Science Museum Wroughton during Great Warbirds Airshow 1993.In colours of RAE Flight Systems RAE Bedford
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