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    Airframe Family: Folland Gnat
    Latest Model:Gnat T.1
    Last Military Serial:XR991 RAF
    Construction Number:FL585
    Last Civil Registration:N5RD
    Compressed ID:Folland Gnat T.1 sn XR991 RAF cn FL...
    Latest Owner or Location:Marine Aviation Museum Inc, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gnat T.1.

    29 May 1964

    First flight.

    1 July 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR991.

    Circa 1970


    Photographer: Unknown

    22 June 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gnat T.1 of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team at the 1973 Woodford Airshow.

    23 April 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gnat T.1 of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team on display at the 1978 RAF Leeming Airshow.

    18 September 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8637M.
    Maintenance Serial.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n A2709.
    Maintenance serial.

    3 August 1988

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BOXO.

    26 September 1989

    To unknown owner with c/r N1CL.

    23 May 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX5RD (GNAT T 1, FL585) issued.

    4 March 2004

    To Rosenberg Stephen, Novato, CA keeping c/r N1CL.

    To Aerocrafters, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
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    Photographer: Unknown

    13 July 2007


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, UK

    29 March 2010

    To unknown owner.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    28 April 2010

    To Marine Aviation Museum Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N1CL.

    Based at William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, TX.
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    October 2018

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, TX.
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    29 July 2020

    To Marine Aviation Museum Inc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N5RD.

    11 September 2023

    To Gnarly Gnat Llc, Henderson, NV keeping c/r N5RD.

    10 May 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Houston - Ellington Field, TX USA

    5 February 2025

    To Marine Aviation Museum Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N5RD.
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