Dates

Event

1938

Constructed as a Gladiator I.
Parts manufactured in 1937, assembled in 1938, last Gladiator I to be built

Circa 1938

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n L8032.

Circa 1938

Assigned to Unknown Location for storage.
Placed immediately into storage due to obsolescence. (Hurricanes and Spitfires were entering service).

Circa 1940

Photographer: Charles Daniels Collection / San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

Circa October 1943

Transferred to 61 OTU.

Circa October 1943

Participated in the film Signed with Honour as 80Sqn aircraft serving in Crete in 1941.

Circa 1944

Assigned to Unknown Location for storage.
Returned to storage following completion of filming.

16 March 1948

Permanently withdrawn from use.

Circa April 1948

To Gloster Aircraft Co Ltd with new c/r G-AMRK.

1950

To Ar Service Training, Hamble (or Anstey?).
As a Ground Instruction airframe.

16 May 1952

To Vivian Hampson Bellamy, Winchester keeping c/r G-AMRK.

From 11 September 1953 to 15 July 1957

To Gloster Aircraft Company keeping c/r G-AMRK.

1956

Markings Applied: K8032
In fictitious serial number of an aircraft serving with 72Sqn.

1960

To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
Donated by Gloster when company closed for business.
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27 May 1978

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: The Shuttleworth Collection flew their Gladiator at the 1978 Bassingbourn Airshow

By 1981

Markings Applied: L8032
Correct serial applied.

Circa 1981

Photographer: Peter M. Law
Notes: 1981 photo at Old Warden

July 1981

Photographer: JM Bryant
Notes: Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome (EGTH), Biggleswade, England, UK.

26 July 1981

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Shuttleworth Collection Airshow

26 July 1981

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Shuttleworth Collection Airshow

29 October 1981

To The Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden keeping c/r G-AMRK.

9 June 1984

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

April 1989

Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Shuttleworth.

By 9 May 1992

Markings Applied: HP-B, N2308
In WWII camouflage scheme. In the markings of a 247Sqn aircraft (the only Gladiator Squadron to participate in the Battle of Britain).

9 May 1992

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Middle Wallop Airshow

8 April 1993

To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade keeping c/r G-AMRK.

16 July 1994

Photographer: Ken Videan
Notes: At Flying Legends Duxford (EGSU).

1996

Markings Applied: 423, 427
A fabric re-cover was carried out, the aircraft was repainted in Royal Norwegian AF colours. Marked 423 on port side and 427 on starboard side.

11 July 2005

Photographer: David Blaker
Notes: At Flying Legends 2005, Duxford, England

8 August 2006

Photographer: Reinhard Jost
Notes: 427 of Norwegian AF at Old Warden, UK

2007

Markings Applied: K7985
Repainted.

Markings Applied: K7985
In the markings of a 73Sqn aircraft flown at the 1937 Hendon Air Pageant by future WW2 ace Cobber Kain.

26 September 2009

Photographer: Andrew Shaw
Notes: Seen at Old Warden

21 April 2012

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: Part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden Airfield in the UK

19 April 2013

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: 2013 photo taken at Old Warden

19 April 2013

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: 2013 photo taken at Old Warden

10 July 2016

Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
Notes: Flying Legends Air Show