De Havilland Mosquito to fly again.

[holdenbj]

Originally Posted by RickRuski

The worlds only air worthy De Havilland Mosquito was rebuilt at avspecs in Auckland NZ for its American owner and will have its first public display ay Ardmore on the 29th September weather permiting. I will be there.

http://www.ardmoreairport.co.nz/Reso..._July_2012.pdf

Excellent , looking forward to seeing the pics

[O_Smiladon]

yep I will be there to. just 5 min from my door

Have had her flying over my roof the last few days..

[GraveyardJimmy]

Would love one of these in CloD. Maybe sometime along the way if they ever make an expansion to the western front.

[Kupsised]

Lucky gits

I've heard rumours of this coming over to the UK for Flying Legends next year. Even if it doesn't happen, I really hope it comes to the UK at some point. It'd be a shame to not be able to see it.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Kupsised

Lucky gits

I've heard rumours of this coming over to the UK for Flying Legends next year. Even if it doesn't happen, I really hope it comes to the UK at some point. It'd be a shame to not be able to see it.

Very unlikely unfortunately. The fuselage is sitting on the wing, which is one big long spar, and disassembling it for travel would be a true PITA, so doing it more than once is very unlikely. Nobody in their sane mind would think to fly that across the world, so no, I think your "rumour" is more like most of us "hope" making a lot of noise

Again, I'd love to be proven wrong, but it's a very difficult thing to do, especially on such a unique wooden construction.

Oh well, there's still plenty of people with more brass than sense in Europe, give it some time..

[fruitbat]

Unfortunately Sterns almost certainly right i think,

according to this month's Flypast magazine, although there were plans to fly the aircraft to Virginia 'the long way round' including a stay in the UK for the airshow season next year, these have now been scrapped and the owner is now planning to crate the aircraft and take it straight to the US. So no Mossie at Legends next year I'm afraid.

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

Unfortunately Sterns almost certainly right i think,

Argh, selfish bugger Hopefully it might make its way over to the UK at some point in the future though. Hell, if it's money they need, I'm sure there'd be no shortage of it. They could take a leaf out of the Vulcan's book.

I didn't actually realise this was going to the US though until yesterday though, I assumed it was staying in NZ. Unfortunately that means it'll probably stick there too, along with all the 190s and other stuff they've got that'd be great to see even just once on the UK circuit.

Still, we can hope for the future at least, or start saving up for a trip to the states.