page_title: Gloster Gladiator
section_title: Surviving aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Gloster Gladiator / Surviving aircraft
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gloster Gladiator, eigentlich ein Doppeldecker - Waffen und Kriegsmaterial aus dem 2. Weltkrieg, fotografiert in Malta April 2006. Genauere Deklaration benötigt, deshalb erst hier hochgeladen.
context_page_description: The Gloster Gladiator was a British-built biplane fighter. It was used by the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm and was exported to a number of other air forces during the late 1930s.
  Developed privately as the Gloster SS.37, it was the RAF's last biplane fighter aircraft and was rendered obsolete by newer monoplane designs even as it was being introduced. Though often pitted against more formidable foes during the early days of the Second World War, it acquitted itself reasonably well in combat.
  The Gladiator saw action in almost all theatres during the Second World War, with a large number of air forces, some of them on the Axis side. The RAF used it in France, Norway, Greece, the defence of Malta, the Middle East, and the brief Anglo-Iraqi War. Other countries deploying the Gladiator included China against Japan, beginning in 1938; Finland against the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War; Sweden as a neutral non-combatant; and Norway, Belgium, and Greece resisting Axis invasion of their respective lands.
  The South African pilot Marmaduke "Pat" Pattle was the top Gladiator ace with 15 victories with the type.
context_section_description: Malta
  N5520 – Sea Gladiator fuselage on static display at the National War Museum in Valletta. It is the only surviving Gladiator from the Fighter Flight. Research on the airframe has indicated that it incorporates parts of at least one other Gladiator.
  Norway
  N5641 – Gladiator II on static display at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø, Nordland. It was operated by No. 263 squadron and abandoned at Lake Lesjaskog during the squadron's retreat. The aircraft had been purchased by a local farmer who preserved it into the 1960s when it was brought to the museum for restoration.
  Sweden
  278 – J 8 on static display at the Swedish Air Force Museum near Linköping, Östergötland.
  United Kingdom
  K8042 – Gladiator I on static display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford in Cosford, Shropshire.
  L8032 – Gladiator I airworthy at the Shuttleworth Collection in Old Warden, Bedfordshire.
  N5628 – Gladiator II forward fuselage on static display at the Royal Air Force Museum London in London. It is displayed unrestored.
  N5903 – Gladiator II airworthy at The Fighter Collection in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
  N5914 – Gladiator II under restoration at the Jet Age Museum in Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
caption: The fuselage of N5520, Fort St. Elmo, Malta (2006)
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