The Gnat Display Team is owned and operated by Heritage Aircraft Limited, the trading arm of The Heritage Aircraft Trust, a registered UK charity (no. 1134981)
Joined December 2010
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16 Mar 2024
RT @rafredarrows: A look back to this fantastic moment a week ago - the #RedArrows sharing the skies with a classic Folland Gnat jet to hel…
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5 Jul 2023
RT @EdwardLeighMP: The RAF is trying to remove the grave of Guy Gibson's dog from Scampton, but are content for the Home Office to house il…
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28 Apr 2023
RT @EdwardLeighMP: West Lindsey District Council has now applied for judicial review of the proposal to house illegal migrants at Scampton.…
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26 Apr 2023
This is absolutely right in every detail. The Government are custodians of our culture - of our arts and our music and our institutions. They have a duty to protect and enhance them for future generations - not to treat them as collateral damage in a pathetic culture war.
26 Apr 2023
Simon Rattle is right: Britain is becoming a cultural desert – and that’s a political choice | Martin Kettle theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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26 Apr 2023
On the immigration bill: The Home Sec claims to be going ahead with RAF Scampton because it will be "appropriate, sustainable, and cost effective".
Nonsense: it'll cost *at least £18.2mn* more than status quo for a year which is all the law allows: 🧵
26 Apr 2023
'We will be progressing with RAF Scampton'
Home Secretary Suella Braveman told #BBCBreakfast the Government will go ahead with plans to use the former home of the Dambusters Squadron to house up to 2,000 asylum seekers
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19 Apr 2023
RE: RAF Scampton
Read this thread to see the danger of the Govt's arguments: they bypassing local planning for inhumane camps at mil bases on basis it's an "emergency"
What's the emergency you ask? *Conservative failures at the Home Office* replies the Government lawyer...
19 Apr 2023
The High Court battle is underway over govt attempt to turn RAF Wethersfield into a camp for 1,700 asylum seekers
The Home Office is arguing that it has the power to decide what constitutes an "emergency" allowing it to bypass normal planning permission
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Dr Beeching and why we should save RAF Scampton
12 Apr 2023
.@militaryhistori’s family made its fortune producing bricks to line the many bridges and tunnels of this 200-mile network, but “Newcastle’s station was an early and inevitable victim” of the Beeching cuts thecritic.co.uk/Beechings-br…
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30 Mar 2023
Once the home to six one seven
Gibson's little piece of heaven
Front line now in culture wars
Jenrick laying down the laws
Braver men than Braverman
Chastise those who think they can
Cancel Eder, Möhne, Sorpe
Heritage to ragged pauper
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1 Apr 2023
Good news - Legal action being taken against the Govt about their plans for Scampton. The fight back begins!!@WeHaveWaysPod
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31 Mar 2023
RT @EdwardLeighMP: This evening I had a very useful planning meeting with Scampton Parish Council, Lincolnshire County Councillor, West Lin…
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29 Mar 2023
SCAMPTON - what the heck? So, there’s a brilliant plan in place that promises £300 million to the site, 1,000 jobs, safeguards Scampton’s heritage, converts the Officers’ Mess into a hotel and continues the airfield’s aviation story. Please RT. @WeHaveWaysPod Shout loud, folks!
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21 Mar 2023
Sacrilege! My piece on why the decision to turn Scampton, the home of the Dambusters, into an asylum seekers' detention centre is not only historical vandalism, but a disaster for the local economy that flies in the face of the Govt's levelling up agenda: dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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20 Mar 2023
SAVE SCAMPTON’s FUTURE! Can I urge people a second time to sign this petition? It’s important! change.org/p/stop-raf-scampt…
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18 Mar 2023
An Open Letter to @SuellaBraverman - signed by 40 historians and interested persons. SAVE SCAMPTON! Pls RT, people! @ukhomeoffice @RobertJenrick @HE_ChiefExec
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15 Mar 2023
FATE OF SCAMPTON - Pls RT! So, it's not good news, having talked to West Lindsey District Council this morning. They're expecting an announcement from the @ukhomeoffice on Monday. They urge everyone to do what can, such as sign this petition: chng.it/Bbb2xbwH
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24 Nov 2020
Happy memories of a @GnatDisplayTeam 3-ship display from Waddington Airshow 2014.
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5 Oct 2020
My father leading 9 Lightning’s and 7 Red Arrows Gnats 1965 - I think but have never confirmed it this is the very first picture of the newly formed Red Arrows @RAFRed1 @rafredarrows @RoyalAirForce @RAFScampton @RAFValleyStnCdr @GnatDisplayTeam @EngElecLighting
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22 Jun 2020
A trip out for a couple of hours today, Monday 22nd June 2020, to North Weald & I was very fortunate to see Aero L-29 Delfin G-BYCT was being prepared for departure.
She's gone to St.Athan for her annual !
It was great to hear Jet Noise at North Weald again :-)
@GnatDisplayTeam
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