Dh Mosquito flight getting close, first engine run
Discussion
FourWheelDrift said:
We don't have any that can be restored to flying condition, they are all already in museums as static examples and we only have 8. We have done it twice, one crashed and one was sold to the USA where it doesn't fly.
Actually, we had 3 airworthy ones here in the early 1980's 
Two were sold (and flown over) to the USA, where one was immediately grounded into the USAF Museum at Dayton, and Kermit Weeks's example ceased flying in around 1991/2.
BAe's example, as you said, crashed in 1996.
Apache said:
Duxford next year?
Who knows.....If I was to put a bet on, I'd say 2014 rather than next year.
With summer approaching in NZ, I'd say it will stay there through to early next year, and then possibly be dimantled for shipping over the USA across the Pacific in time for a summer season in the USA, via a cross continent flight from west coast to FF base in Virginia taking in Chino shows, Oshkosh etc en route.
That would enable a winter 2013/4 dismantle and shipping across from east coast to UK in time for a summer season here..... perhaps early enough for a flight from Hunsdon across the channel to Amiens on the 70th anniversary of Operation Jericho on the 18th Feb 2014
uncinqsix said:
aeropilot said:
With summer approaching in NZ, I'd say it will stay there through to early next year,
Fingers crossed for Wings Over Wairarapa in Jan!! Would seem to me to be the ideal opportunity for a first major(ish) show...Some more pics here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7747544/WWII-Mosqu...
Apache said:
Duxford next year?
News from NZ after a post first display talk by the owner, is not good news for us in the UK, as he has confirmed there is now no plans for KA114 to come to the UK 
There was a plan for a European tour, but only on the basis of a completion/first flight being before Easter 2011.
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