Has anything been published as there is a a definite scarcity of Gnat books out there.

Whilst the Gnats of the Red Arrows were (for the 1965 season at least) were inherited from the Yellowjacks, I am not clear if the same applied to the pilots.

Got to sit in it, more fuel to the fire of my ambition to become a pilot.must have been late 70s.anyone else remember that.

Final flight was to RAF Cranwell on 17th September 1979, at the end of its career, it became Ground instructional airframe 8638M, before being sold off: she was acquired by Arnold Glass at Cranfield and civil registered G-GNAT as 1441982.

After a change of ownership on 2891983, it was sold off on 2521997 to Australia as VH-XSO.

In other words, your memory dates from 1980-81 rather than the late 1970s.

Date for the above was 8 August 1976, back in the days when Durham-Tees Valley Airport was known as Teesside Airport (to me, it will always be Middleton St.

It was displayed at one time in a car showroom in Worcester.

Date for the above was 8 August 1976 I dont know why theres only eight listed there but the Reds had been operating as a nine ship team long before 1976.

Im also pretty sure XR537 was the lead aircraft that year too.

Red Arrows Aircraft Serial Numbers