List of surviving de Havilland Mosquitos

Mosquito FB.26 KA114/ZK-MOS

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served with the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries during the Second World War and with many other air forces around the world in the postwar era. Only a few aircraft survive of almost 8,000 built. Three examples were airworthy as of September 2016.

Australia

1 A52-319 is on display at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

On display

• Mosquito PR.41 A52-319 is on display at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.^[1]

Under restoration

• Mosquito FB.VI HR621 was originally delivered to and flew for the No. 618 Squadron RAF. In 1947, it was towed to a farm in Tomingly, where it sat until the Camden Museum of Aviation in Narellan, New South Wales) recovered the aircraft in 1968. It is being restored using parts from other Mosquito hulks^[2] and is intended to have a complete cockpit and functioning primary flight controls.^[3]
• Mosquito PR.XVI A52-600 was delivered to the RAF as NS631 before transfer to the RAAF. It flew more than 20 sorties with No. 87 Squadron RAAF. It was later sold to an orchardist who experimented with using its engines to dry vines. In 1966, the hulk was rescued by the Mildura Warbirds Museum, and in 1987 it was sold to the RAAF Museum. The Mosquito is being restored for display.
• A composite static restoration/reconstruction incorporating parts recovered from the Narromine parts dump is under way with the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society at Albion Park, Illawarra.

Belgium

On display

• Mosquito NF.30 RK952 is on display at the Musee Royal de l'Armee, Brussels as MB24 of the Belgian Air Force.^[4]

Canada

Airworthy

• Mosquito B.35 VR796/C-FHMJ was restored to airworthiness by Victoria Air Maintenance Ltd^[5] at Victoria International Airport, British Columbia and made its first post-restoration flight on 16 June 2014^[6] flown by Steve Hinton.^[7][8] At the conclusion of the test-flying programme the aircraft was delivered to owner Bob Jens at Vancouver. The aircraft is painted to honour the famous "F" for Freddie. The original aircraft flew 213 ops; more combat missions than any other Allied bomber during World War II. It was destroyed in a crash at Calgary, Alberta on May 10, 1945. Jens's Mosquito made her debut public flights at the Abbotsford Air Show 2014-08-09 and 10.

VP189 on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum

On display

• Mosquito B.XX KB336 is on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario.^[9]
• Mosquito B.35 VP189/CF-HMQ is on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum, Edmonton, Alberta.^[10]

Under restoration

• Mosquito B.35 TA661/CF-HMR crashed and burned on an aerial survey flight on 10 July 1956. The remains were recovered 40 years later and a rebuild is in progress by the Windsor Mosquito Bomber Group, Windsor, Ontario. The fuselage was the first to be built by Glyn Powell and Avspecs of Ardmore, Auckland, New Zealand in 2002. Although originally intended as a static display, all construction is to airworthy standards.^[11] The aircraft will be painted in the livery of Mosquito B.XX KB161, the first Canadian-built Mosquito to be delivered to the RAF. The project can be viewed at the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association hangar, #7 E.F.T.S., near the Windsor airport.
• Mosquito PR.35 RS700/CF-HMS was purchased by Spartan Air Services of Ottawa, ON in 1954 as one of 10 Mosquitoes acquired for high altitude photo mapping work in Canada. After it was retired by Spartan it was purchased by Lynn Garrison from Spartan in 1963, for display in Calgary. It is now owned by the City of Calgary. In December 2011, the City awarded stewardship of the aircraft to the Calgary Mosquito Aircraft Society. The Society, a not-for-profit volunteer-based organization, was formed in 2008 to restore it to static display, with engines in running condition in its Spartan livery. The restoration is being conducted by volunteers of the Calgary Mosquito Society in Nanton, AB at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Work began in August 2012.

China

A replica/mockup de Havilland Canada DH.98 Mosquito FB.26 using a real wing on display at China Aviation Museum, Datangshan, XiaoTangShan, Chang Ping County.^[12]

New Zealand

Airworthy

• Mosquito T Mk.III TV959/ZK-FHC is owned by Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection and was rebuilt to fly by AvSpecs at Ardmore Airport, Auckland. Engine runs began in mid-August 2016^[13] and the first post-restoration flight was carried out on 26 September 2016 by David Phillips and Keith Skilling.^[14] The aircraft was temporarily painted in the markings of NZ2337/YC-F, an RNZAF Mosquito which was destroyed in a hangar fire at Ohakea in June 1950.^[15] TV959 was formerly in the collection of the Imperial War Museum at Lambeth and later Duxford.

On display

• Mosquito T.43 A52-1053/NZ2305 (converted from FB40 Bankstown de Havilland factory). On display at the Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland.^[16] This aircraft was subject to an exhaustive restoration by MOTAT volunteers with work on the wing being carried out by Air Force Museum of New Zealand staff.

Under restoration

• Mosquito FB.VI PZ474/NZ2384 was exported to New Zealand from the United States in early 2014^[17][18] to be restored to fly for Rod Lewis' Lewis Air Legends collection in Texas.^[19]
• Components of Mosquito FB.VIs TE758/NZ2328 (fuselage) and HR339/NZ2382 (wings) are being used in a composite restoration for static display by volunteers of the Ferrymead Aeronautical Society at the Ferrymead Heritage Park, Christchurch. When complete the aircraft will be displayed in the colours of HR339.^[20] The project workshop has large windows to allow museum visitors to watch the restoration.
• Mosquito T Mk.43 NZ2308, dual control Mosquito, the Australian equivalent of the British T Mk.3. It began life on the Bankstown assembly line as a FB Mk.40, A52-20, and was converted to T43 status as A52-1054. It was one of four purchased by the RNZAF in June 1947 and flown across the Tasman Sea in four hours. It was disposed of in 1955 and ended its days on a farm at Riwaka in the north of the South Island. Bought by Glyn Powell it is being restored to airworthy using a new build fuselage and wings. As of June 2014 the aircraft was for sale.^[21]
• Mosquito B.IV DZ542, based on components collected by Glyn Powell in the late 1980s, was reported in 2015^[22] as being "next in line" for airworthy restoration at AvSpecs.

Stored

• Mosquito FB.VI TE910/NZ2336 is held in the private collection of John Smith in the Tasman region.^[23]
• Mosquito FB.VI TE863/NZ2355 is held by the RNZAF Museum, Wigram as a restoration project.^[24][25]
• Mosquito FB.VI RF597/NZ2383 is held by the RNZAF Museum, Wigram as a restoration project.

Norway

On display

• Mosquito T.3 TW117 is on display at the National Museum of Aviation, Bodo.^[26][27]

South Africa

On display

• Mosquito PR.IX LR480 is on display at the South African National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold.^[28]

United Kingdom

TA719 in 2005 at Duxford

On display

• Mosquito prototype W4050 is on display at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney close to the location it was built. It is painted as W4050 on the port side but has the test serial registration E-0234 on the starboard side.^[29]
• Mosquito NF.II HJ711 is a composite airframe and is on display during restoration at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington^[30]
• Mosquito FB.6 TA122 is on display at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney in 605 Squadron markings. It is being rebuilt with wings from another Mosquito.^[29]
• Mosquito TT.35 TA634 is on display at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney in 571 Squadron markings.^[29]
• Mosquito TT.35 TA639 is on display at the Royal Air Force Museum at RAF Cosford.^[31]
• Mosquito TT.35 TA719 is on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, it was registered G-ASKC in 1963 for use in the film 633 Squadron^[32]
• Mosquito B.35 TJ138 is on display in the Milestones of Flight exhibition at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon in 98 Squadron markings.

Under restoration

• The identity of Mosquito NF.36 RL249 is to be used as the basis of a restoration to flight status in the United Kingdom^[33] although after an internet poll the model to be represented was changed to an FB.VI.^[34] As of April 2014 work on the wings was under way in New Zealand.^[35]

United States

KA114 taxiing after landing at the Military Aviation Museum

Airworthy

• Mosquito FB.26 KA114/N114KA is owned by Jerry Yagen and based at the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Manufactured in Canada in 1945, KA114 never saw combat in the Second World War and in 1948 was sold to a farmer in Alberta, where it deteriorated in a field until purchased by the Canadian Museum of Flight and Transport in 1978. It was bought by the Military Aviation Museum in 2004. Restoration work was done over an eight year period by Avspecs in New Zealand. Most of the metal parts were reused, and Glyn Powell, of Auckland, New Zealand built the new fuselage, wings, and tail sections from wood. It took almost three years to build the wooden airframe. The Mosquito is painted with the markings of 487 Squadron RNZAF as EG-Y in honor of the Royal New Zealand unit flying Mosquitos during WWII. Registered in New Zealand as ZK-MOS the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) issued the aircraft a Certificate of Airworthiness in September 2012. It made its first flight in over 60 years on 29 September at Ardmore Airport near Auckland, New Zealand. It arrived in Virginia Beach in March 2013 and was registered in the United States as N114KA. It received its FAA Certificate of Airworthiness on 30 April 2013.

Kermit Weeks and his Mosquito

On display

• Mosquito TT.35 RS709 is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio representing PR.XVI NS519 of the USAAF. It was civil registered G-ASKA in 1963 for use in the film 633 Squadron.^[36]
• Mosquito TT.35 RS712/N35MK is on display at the EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, but is owned by Kermit Weeks. It was civil registered G-ASKB in 1963 for use in the film 633 Squadron. Flown from Strathallan collection, Scotland 1984 to the US. Aircraft last flew in 1989.^[37][38] Weeks has suggested on his blog he would like to return the aircraft to the air when new hangars have been constructed at his Fantasy of Flight site.^[39]

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External links

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• Avspecs Limited Warbird Restorations: Current - de Havilland Mosquito FB 26 - Extensive and detailed photographic and text log of the restoration of KA114