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    Airframe Family: Folland Gnat
    Latest Model:Gnat T.1
    Last Military Serial:XP541 RAF
    Construction Number:FL543
    Last Civil Registration:N8130Q
    Compressed ID:Folland Gnat T.1 sn XP541 RAF cn FL...
    Latest Owner or Location:Front Range Airport, Bennett, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as a Gnat T.1.

    30 July 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gnat T.1 of 4 Flying Training School on display at the 1977 Royal Review at RAF Finningley.

    13 August 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gnat T.1 of 4 Flying Training School at the 1977 RAF Lossiemouth Open Day.

    13 August 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gnat T.1 of 4 Flying Training School at the 1977 RAF Lossiemouth Open Day.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP541.

    Transferred to RAF Abingdon.
    Used as an instructional airframe.

    New serial number assigned: 8616M RAF
    Assigned the maintenance serial at Abingdon.

    25 January 2002

    To Robert N. Davis, Tipton, IN with new c/r N8130Q.

    7 August 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX8130Q (GNAT T 1, XP-541) issued.

    8 February 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX8130Q (GNAT T 1, XP-541) issued.

    12 July 2007

    To Ska Consulting Llc, Westlake Village, CA with new c/r N8130Q.

    30 October 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Santa Maria Museum of Flight, CA

    Based at Santa Maria Museum of Flight, Santa Maria, CA.
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    9 May 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Santa Maria Museum of Flight.

    9 May 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Santa Maria Museum of Flight.

    Based at Front Range Airport, Bennett, CO.
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    15 June 2017

    Civil registration, N8130Q, cancelled.
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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