The ABC Gnat was a 45 hp (34 kW) two-cylinder

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for use in light aircraft. The Gnat was built by

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, first running in 1916, production ceased in December 1918. 17 engines were built from an original order of 18.

Applications

* BAT Crow * Blackburn Sidecar * Eastchurch Kitten * Grain Kitten *

Loening M-2 Kitten The Loening M-2 Kitten was a light aircraft produced in the United States at the end of the 1920s, for use aboard capital ships and submarines of the United States Navy (USN). Design The M-2 was a small monoplane designed for operation from bat ...

* Macchi M.16G * Royal Flying Corps ‘Aerial Target’Professor A. M. Low FLIGHT, 3 October, 1952 page 436 “The First Guided Missile” *

Sopwith Sparrow The Sopwith Sparrow was a manned light aircraft developed from the Sopwith A.T. (''Aerial Target'') drone and was powered by a ABC Gnat engine. References * {{Sopwith Aviation Company aircraft Sparrow Biplanes ...

* Sopwith Tadpole

Specifications (Gnat I)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

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