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Gloster Gladiator
Gloster Gladiator of the Royal Air Force.

The Gloster Gladiator is a biplane fighter aircraft of the World War II. It was built in UK and used by Royal Air Force, especially in Malta. Sea Gladiator was a variant, built for operations from an aircraft carrier, and used by Fleet Air Arm. Belgium, Finland, and Norway also used it. It was the last biplane fighter in service in UK.

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  • Gloster SS.37

    The first prototype Gladiator, with Gauntlet fuselage, G-37, later K5200, April 1935

  • Norwegian Army Air Service Gloster Gladiator 423

    NoAAS Gloster Gladiator 423 in 1938–1940

  • Arthur Chin

    Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿) was a Chinese ace during WWII

  • Gloster Gladiator, J 8

    Preserved Finnish Gladiator, 1976

  • Norwegian Gloster Gladiator - Kristian Fredrik Schye

    The sole Norwegian air-to-air Gloster Gladiator loss – Sergeant Pilot Schye's Gladiator 427 on 9 April 1940

  • Gloster Gladiator fuselage gun

    The .303 inch machine guns under each lower wing

  • GlosterGApril1940N5628

    Gloster Gladiator N5628. Damaged by German air attack while based on the frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet on 28 April 1940 and abandoned the same day. It eventually sank in May and was recovered in 1968 by a diving team from RAF Cranwell.

  • ZZZ 003915 E Gladiator

    Faith (serial number N5520), a Gloster Sea Gladiator Mk I, on the ground at an airfield in Malta, in about September 1940. The aircraft has been refitted with a Bristol Mercury XV engine and three-blade Hamilton Standard variable-pitch propeller salvaged from a Bristol Blenheim.

  • Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. CM354

    Seven Gladiators of No. 3 Squadron RAAF making a low pass in loose formation over the Squadron's mobile operations room at their landing ground near Sollum, Egypt, circa 1941

  • Legionnaires guards gladiators

    Arab Legionnaires guard Gloster Gladiators of No. 94 Squadron RAF at the landing ground at H4 pumping station in Transjordan

  • Gladiator I Irsko

    Gloster Gladiator Mk I of the 1st Squadron of the Irish Air Corps

  • Gloster Gladiator 1

    Gladiator I in Second World War Norwegian Army Air Service colours

  • F19-014

    Swedish Voluntary Air Force Gladiator fighter from the air squadron F 19, with Finnish Air Force markings

  • Gladiator pair - Flying Legends 2013 (9304445682)

    Gladiator L8032 (civil registration G-AMRK), owned by the Shuttleworth Trust, and Gladiator N5902 (G-GLAD) owned by The Fighter Collection, flying in formation (2013)

  • Malta 482

    The fuselage of N5520, Fort St. Elmo, Malta (2006)

  • Gloster Gladiator Cockpit

    Cockpit of a Gladiator

See also

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