19 Squadron swapped its Gauntlets for Spitfires in August 1939, the first squadron to receive the new fighter. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

'A fine study of 56 Sqn Gauntlet K5296 up from RAF North Weald in October 1936. This aircraft later flew with 17 Sqn.' The matt fuselage panel is aluminium, anodized as an anti-corrosion measure. Photo from: Flight

Later OH-XGT. Photo: SA-kuva (Finnish Armed Forces photograph, Wartime Photograph Archive). Photographer Niilo Helander.

RAF winter exercise in the London area with Gauntlets of No 19 Sqn, including K4090 and K084, and Bristol Bulldogs. No 19 were based at Duxford and became the first unit to receive the Spitfire in 1938.

Landing mishap for a Gauntlet fighter. J-31 fatally crashed two years later on 8 August 1939 at the Oksbøl range, when a bomb dropped by the diving aircraft hit the propeller. Photo from: National Museum of Denmark

The fifth and final prototype in a line that led to the production Gloster Gauntlet. By the time the SS.19B flew in July 1933 over four years had passed since the first Bristol Jupiter powered aircraft. Despite the Mercury powered J9125 being close to production standard it would be a further 17 months before the first production aircraft was flown. Gloster photo. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

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