FOLLAND GNAT

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FOLLAND GNAT

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This page last updated on 18th March 2004

"Both, please!"
- Ray Hanna, on being offered a choice between a Spitfire and a Gnat.

Gnat T.1 XR538 (G-RORI); author

Brainchild of the designer of both the Canberra and Lightning, the Gnat was intended to be a lightweight fighter for the RAF but only saw service as a trainer with the RAF, with success as a fighter and light ground attack aircraft primarily with the Indian and Finnish Air Forces.

In service with the RAF from 1958 until 1979 (and as late as 1991 with the Indians), it was Folland's last product before merger with Hawker.

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