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Gladiator/N5903



Serial #: N5903
Construction #: -
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: Mark II
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2003
  History:
Gloster Aircraft Ltd, Hucclecote, 1948.
- Stored.
Air Service Training, Ansty, Nov. 1950.
- Delivered disassembled.
Air Service Training, Hamble, 1951.
- Used as instructional airframe.
Vivian Bellamy, Eastleigh, Dec. 1951.
Shuttleworth Trust, Old Warden, 1960-1994.
- Loaned to Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, circa 1978-1991.
-- Displayed as Sea Gladiator "N2276".
The Fighter Collection, Duxford, 1994-2003.
- Under restoration to airworthy.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
The Fighter Collection, www.fighter-collection.com/, 2002.
Photo Source(s):
Gary Brossett