Airfix Folland Gnat T.1 1/72 Kit

Developed as a very small, lightweight, manoeuvrable fighter, in an era where fighter designs seemed to be an inexorable rise in size, the Folland Gnat found instead , fame and service with the RAF as a jet trainer. A tiny aircraft in comparison to its contemporaries, the Gnat was used as the mount of a number of aerobatic teams, from the Yellow Jacks to the Red Arrows. Serving until 1979, the Gnat proved to be a capable and much loved trainer.