Date:	Tuesday 18 March 1958
Time:	day
Type:	Folland Gnat
Owner/operator:	Folland Aircraft Ltd
Registration:	IE1059
MSN:	FL7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Chilbolton, Stockbridge, Hampshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Chilbolton, Stockbridge, Hampshire
Destination airport:	Chilbolton, Stockbridge, Hampshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
first flown 14/8/1957 in "Class B" markings G-39-3, one of six pre-production Gnats delivered by Folland Aircraft to the Ministry of Supply to contract Acft/6/12292. RAF serial XK768 allocated but not taken up, to Indian Air Force as IE1059. Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 18/3/1958 when belly landed at Chilbolton, Stockbridge, Hampshire. Not repaired, shipped to India as Ground Instructional Airframe. Preserved at Delhi, India

Most recently reported (in August 2010) at Rishu Mandolia/Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. The aircraft is on display in a barbed wire enclosure with a board giving the type's background and performance particulars; it is stated to be an Ajeet but as it only has two underwing hardpoints is far more likely to be a Gnat. Also, the serial number of the aircraft is not in sequence with known serials of Ajeets.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 2001 page 52)
2. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XK
3. Folland Gnat Production list: http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/folland.pdf
4. http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=501
5. http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gnat/survivor.php?id=933
6. http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/ah1900/fafoprod.html

Folland Gnat F.1 preserved at the Indian Air Force Museum, New Delhi Indira Gandhi airport, India, 05/02/07.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Jun-2018 19:35	Dr. John Smith	Added