List of surviving Folland Gnats

Last updated November 03, 2025

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.

Surviving aircraft

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

Gnat F1 at Liberation War Museum, Dhaka

Finland

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

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

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 at Pakistan Air Force Museum, Karachi^[27]

Serbia

On display

Gnat F1 11601 at the Belgrade Aviation Museum ^[28]

United Kingdom

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]

The North Weald based Gnats moved to St Athan in 2024/5 ( operating as the Heritage Aircraft Trust/Gnat Display Team ) ^[30]

On display

Gnat F1 XK724 at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands ^[31]
Gnat F1 XK740 at the Solent Sky Museum, Southampton, Hampshire^[32]
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^[33]
Gnat T1 XM697 at Reynard Garden Centre, Carluke, South Lanarkshire^[34]
Gnat T1 XP502 painted as XR540 at Cotswold Airport ^[35]
Gnat T1 XP516 at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Farnborough, Hampshire^[36]
Gnat T1 XP534 painted as XR993 at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire^[37]
Gnat T1 XP542 at Air Cadets at Southampton, Hampshire.^[32]
Gnat T1 XR534 at Newark Air Museum ^[38]
Gnat T1 XR571 at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, West Sussex
Gnat T1 XR574 at Trenchard Museum, RAF Halton ^[39]
Gnat T1 XR977 at Royal Air Force Museum Midlands ^[40]
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^[41]
Gnat T1 XP505 at Science Museum, Wroughton Aerodrome, Wiltshire^[42]
Gnat T1 XP540 at Bruntingthorpe Airfield^[29]
Gnat T1 XR541 at Bournemouth Aviation Museum, Dorset

United States

Folland Gnat T.1 'XR572/N572XR' in the markings of the RAF Red Arrows at the Jeffco open house in June 2006 Gnatjeffco2006.JPG — Folland Gnat T.1 'XR572/N572XR' in the markings of the RAF Red Arrows at the Jeffco open house in June 2006

Airworthy

Gnat T1 N1CL of the Vietnam War Flight Museum at William P. Hobby Airport, Texas^[43]
Gnat T1 N19GT at Chino, California^[44]
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.^[45]

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

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 "Out of Service British Military Aircraft". Demobbed.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
↑ Ogden 2008, p.57
↑ MacConnacher, p. 79
1 2 3 4 5 6 Ogden 2008, p.96
1 2 3 Ogden 2008, p.97
1 2 Ogden 2008, p.100
1 2 3 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
1 2 Ogden 2008, p.84
↑ Ogden 2008, p.87
↑ Ogden 2008, p.88
1 2 Ogden 2008, p.89
1 2 3 4 5 Ogden 2008, p.90
↑ Ogden 2008, p.93
1 2 Ogden 2008, p.98
↑ Ogden 2008, p.104
↑ Ogden 2008, p.107
↑ Ogden 2008, p.111
1 2 Ogden 2008, p.112
↑ Ogden 2008, p.103
↑ Ogden 2008, p.221
↑ Ogden 2009, p.505
1 2 3 4 5 Ellis 2016, p. 59
↑ https://cardiffstathan.blogspot.com/p/heritage-aircraft-ltd.html
↑ Ellis 2016, p. 194
1 2 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

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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[demob-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 "Out of Service British Military Aircraft". Demobbed.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2015.

[BA1-2] Ogden 2008, p.57

[3] MacConnacher, p. 79

[IDA47-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ogden 2008, p.96

[IDA49-5] 1 2 3 Ogden 2008, p.97

[IDA561-6] 1 2 Ogden 2008, p.100

[IDA569-7] 1 2 3 Ogden 2008, p.102

[IDA79-8] Ogden 2008, p.105

[IDA83-9] Ogden 2008, p.108

[10] "Folland Gnat - Survivor E325".

[IDA45-11] Ogden 2008, p.94

[IDA55-12] Ogden 2008, p.99

[IDA4-13] Ogden 2008, p.82

[IDA7-14] Ogden 2008, p.83

[IDA14-15] 1 2 Ogden 2008, p.84

[IDA21-16] Ogden 2008, p.87

[IDA23-17] Ogden 2008, p.88

[IDA26-18] 1 2 Ogden 2008, p.89

[IDA32-19] 1 2 3 4 5 Ogden 2008, p.90

[IDA41-20] Ogden 2008, p.93

[IDA50-21] 1 2 Ogden 2008, p.98

[IDA574-22] Ogden 2008, p.104

[IDA80-23] Ogden 2008, p.107

[IDA96-24] Ogden 2008, p.111

[IDA99-25] 1 2 Ogden 2008, p.112

[IDA70-26] Ogden 2008, p.103

[PAK28-27] Ogden 2008, p.221

[SER9-28] Ogden 2009, p.505

[wr59-29] 1 2 3 4 5 Ellis 2016, p. 59

[30] ttps://cardiffstathan.blogspot.com/p/heritage-aircraft-ltd.html

[wr194-31] Ellis 2016, p. 194

[wr80-32] 1 2 Ellis 2016, p. 80

[wr74-33] Ellis 2016, p. 74

[wr308-34] Ellis 2016, p. 308

[wr66-35] Ellis 2016, p. 66

[wr71-36] Ellis 2016, p. 71

[wr134-37] Ellis 2016, p. 134

[wr186-38] Ellis 2016, p. 186

[wr17-39] Ellis 2016, p. 17

[wr193-40] Ellis 2016, p. 193

[wr96-41] Ellis 2016, p. 96

[wr286-42] Ellis 2016, p. 286

[43] "Gnat - Vietnam War Flight Museum". Vietnamwarflight.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.

[44] ""Flying and Static Aircraft"". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2016.

[45] ""FO141 Gnat"". Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.

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