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**GEEDUBBYA** · 18-01-2008

Howdy Dad,

With a waitng list of a year long....black and white sounds good to me too lol.
However, upon further investigation, i have come across some more leads that you might wish to follow up on.
This website: http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/types/uk.../gladiator.htm
has tons of source information at the bottom of the page. One of the links there, I followed ( Gloster Gladiator aircraft profile
(Details of Gladiator in Fleet Air Arm service and preserved examples) and was taken to this page: http://fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Gladiator.htm
which, gives the history of the gladiator in the Fleet air arm and provides the locations of some of the preserved "surviving aircraft and relics".
Below is a quote from the site with clickable links to the various places the aircraft can be found:

"Preserved examples exist at the Shuttleworth Collection (UK), Gloucestershire Aviation Collection (UK), National War Museum (Malta), and the RAF Museum (UK). A Gladiator mocked up as a Sea Gladiator was loaned by the Shuttleworth Collection to the FAA Museum between 1971 and 1994 and marked in Sea Gladiator colours. This Gladiator has since been restored and now resides with The Fighter Collection (UK). "

Before giving up, you might look into contacting one or more of these places via email, they cant all have year long waiting lists.

I also ran across the name of "trust"who has a gladiator, the one I showed in the photo in my first reply of this thread (I think). It is the Shuttleworth Trust at old warden bedfordshire. You can find the Shuttleworth trust website at: http://www.shuttleworth.org/ .
There you will find a link to the trusts collection of aircraft, which is VERY impressive as well as a link for contacting the trust found here:

http://www.shuttleworth.org/contact.asp

I would at the very least give the shuttleworth folks an email to see if they can possibly help.

anyway, I see that i could probably give you link after link and we could do this forever lol, but hopefully one of these links will lead you to info you can use.

have a good day,

Greg

PS: THIS LINK AT THE TRUST HAS SOME EXCELLANT PICTURES OF OLD AIRCRAFT: http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_aircraft.asp

One last thing, along with the above contact link in the body of the post about the "trust", here is abit more contact info for the "Trust".

The Shuttleworth Collection
Shuttleworth (Old Warden) Aerodrome
Nr. Biggleswade,
Bedfordshire
SG18 9EP

Telephone: +44 (0)1767 627927
Fax: +44 (0)1767 627949
Email: collection@shuttleworth.org

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GEEDUBBYA Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Pine Bluff, Arkansas Real Name: Greg My Models: model planes tanks and helicopters as well as missiles and rockets Visit GEEDUBBYA's Gallery Posts: 1,002 Images: 329	*Howdy Dad,* *With a waitng list of a year long....black and white sounds good to me too lol.* *However, upon further investigation, i have come across some more leads that you might wish to follow up on.* *This website: http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/types/uk.../gladiator.htm* *has tons of source information at the bottom of the page. One of the links there, I followed (* Gloster Gladiator aircraft profile (Details of Gladiator in Fleet Air Arm service and preserved examples) *and was taken to this page: http://fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Gladiator.htm* *which, gives the history of the gladiator in the Fleet air arm and provides the locations of some of the preserved "surviving aircraft and relics".* *Below is a quote from the site with clickable links to the various places the aircraft can be found:* "Preserved examples exist at the Shuttleworth Collection (UK), Gloucestershire Aviation Collection (UK), National War Museum (Malta), and the RAF Museum (UK). A Gladiator mocked up as a Sea Gladiator was loaned by the Shuttleworth Collection to the FAA Museum between 1971 and 1994 and marked in Sea Gladiator colours. This Gladiator has since been restored and now resides with The Fighter Collection (UK). " *Before giving up, you might look into contacting one or more of these places via email, they cant all have year long waiting lists.* I also ran across the name of "trust"who has a gladiator, the one I showed in the photo in my first reply of this thread (I think). It is the Shuttleworth Trust at old warden bedfordshire. You can find the Shuttleworth trust website at: http://www.shuttleworth.org/ . *There you will find a link to the trusts collection of aircraft, which is VERY impressive as well as a link for contacting the trust found here:* *http://www.shuttleworth.org/contact.asp* *I would at the very least give the shuttleworth folks an email to see if they can possibly help.* *anyway, I see that i could probably give you link after link and we could do this forever lol, but hopefully one of these links will lead you to info you can use.* *have a good day,* *Greg* *PS: THIS LINK AT THE TRUST HAS SOME EXCELLANT PICTURES OF OLD AIRCRAFT: http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_aircraft.asp* *One last thing, along with the above contact link in the body of the post about the "trust", here is abit more contact info for the "Trust".* The Shuttleworth Collection Shuttleworth (Old Warden) Aerodrome Nr. Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 9EP Telephone: +44 (0)1767 627927 Fax: +44 (0)1767 627949 Email: collection@shuttleworth.org Last edited by GEEDUBBYA; 18-01-2008 at 04:10.