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    Airframe Family: Folland Gnat
    Latest Model:Gnat T.1
    Last Military Serial:XS101 RAF
    Construction Number:FL595
    Last Civil Registration:VH-XSO
    Compressed ID:Folland Gnat T.1 sn XS101 RAF cn FL...
    Latest Owner or Location:Essendon Executive Pty. Ltd, South Melbourne, VIC

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1964

    Constructed as a Gnat T.1.

    10 September 1964

    First flight.

    6 October 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS101.

    8 September 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gnat T.1 of the Royal Air Forces Central Flying Schools Red Arrows aerobatic display team preparing for action at the 1978 SBAC Farnborough Airshow.

    New serial number assigned: 8638M RAF

    Transferred to RAF Cranwell.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    14 April 1982

    To Bryan Stephan Grey, Flaine, France with new c/r G-GNAT.

    24 September 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Alconbury Air Show

    28 September 1983

    To Ruanil Investments Limited, Saint. Helier, Jersey keeping c/r G-GNAT.
    Based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

    25 February 1997

    To Brutus Holdings Limited, Jersey keeping c/r G-GNAT.

    25 February 1997

    To Brutus Holdings Ltd, Jersey keeping c/r G-GNAT.

    29 October 2003

    Civil registration, G-GNAT, cancelled.

    26 May 2004

    To Airport Facilities Pty Ltd, South Melbourne, VIC with new c/r VH-XSO.

    8 June 2006

    To Airport Facilities Pty Ltd, South Melbourne, VIC keeping c/r VH-XSO.

    1 July 2012

    To Essendon Executive Pty. Ltd, South Melbourne, VIC keeping c/r VH-XSO.
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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