In India, licenses were issued to produce 89 HS 748 aircraft domestically, with Hawker Siddeley ending production in 1988. With more powerful turboprop engines hitting the market in the late 1950s ...

However, by the late 1980s, its share of the civil aviation market was falling. British Aerospace (BAe) decided to have one ...

The fighter version of the aircraft, which would be denoted as the Gnat F.1, was exported to Finland, Yugoslavia, and India, ...