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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2023 7:49:40 GMT 12
Looking from the photos to my calendar and back, and without wanting to create too much unwarranted excitement, is there a good chance she could appear at Warbirds Over Wanaka? you mentioned number 5 (5!!) for Peter Monk. If I recall correctly this is a B.IV? I've been wondering that too Baz: the B.IV (DZ542) seems to be the most likely candidate as I remember seeing photo of a freshly-built bomber fuselage arriving at Avspecs in FlyPast or Aeroplane a few years ago. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 11, 2023 8:13:33 GMT 12
No, the B.IV is still for sale.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2023 8:28:13 GMT 12
Thanks Dave.
In that case, another candidate is the ex-John Smith FB.VI TE881/NZ2345.
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Post by michaelknott on Sept 11, 2023 12:08:07 GMT 12
Looking from the photos to my calendar and back, and without wanting to create too much unwarranted excitement, is there a good chance she could appear at Warbirds Over Wanaka? I'm hoping for the same thing after reading that article too. I think the runway at Wanaka is similar in length and width to Hood Aerodrome, where KA114 flew at Wings over Wairarapa 2013. Seeing a Mosquito fly at Wanaka would be incredible! |
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 11, 2023 12:34:00 GMT 12
Looking from the photos to my calendar and back, and without wanting to create too much unwarranted excitement, is there a good chance she could appear at Warbirds Over Wanaka? It would be a kind and generous owner to allow it! |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 11, 2023 13:00:57 GMT 12
How about stop all the speculation, and allow the owners to make their own decisions and business deals.
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Post by McFly on Oct 27, 2023 19:04:11 GMT 12
Picked off Gavin Conroy's Facebook 'Classic Aircraft Photography' page ( Link)  "Mosquito NZ2308 back on its feet yesterday for the first time in decades as work continues at Avspecs Ltd. to restore this to fly, top job guys, Onward!"
(Photo Gavin Conroy)
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Post by shane on Dec 24, 2023 4:29:00 GMT 12
This article sums up the mosquito projects well www.scramble.nl/military-news/mosquito-newsQuote " Avspecs have a B.IV project for sale (DZ452, an ex-'Highball project' aircraft (that tested the Wallis bouncing bomb) which could/would be No.6 and likely the final one. This was the aircraft that had supposedly been the one that the now defunct UK Pathfinder group owned, or had reserved for ownership, until they switched to the ex-Glyn Powell T.43 NZ2308. This was then later sold and allocated to Rod Lewis when the Pathfinder group failed to raise the funds, and have effectively now ceased to exist as a group." Shane |
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Post by ErrolC on Feb 8, 2024 22:22:23 GMT 12
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Post by patmurphy on Feb 9, 2024 5:58:27 GMT 12
A classy touch. Expected nothing less.  |
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Post by l29 on Feb 9, 2024 7:33:27 GMT 12
Be good to see it at Wanaka....
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Post by planecrazy on Feb 9, 2024 8:08:04 GMT 12
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Post by agile on Feb 9, 2024 8:30:23 GMT 12
No. NZ2308 is a T43 and is being completed for a US customer as noted in at least two of the articles posted above. As per your link the project for the UK is an FB6.
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Post by planecrazy on Feb 9, 2024 10:32:37 GMT 12
No. NZ2308 is a T43 and is being completed for a US customer as noted in at least two of the articles posted above. As per your link the project for the UK is an FB6. So the UK one will be the next one built by Avspecs or maybe the article old and therefore not correct? flyaspitfire.com/2023/02/06/mosquito-at-biggin-hill/ |
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Post by agile on Feb 9, 2024 22:56:00 GMT 12
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Post by planecrazy on Feb 10, 2024 6:45:58 GMT 12
Thank you for that, would really like to try an bump into the UK one if she does a tour of Australia, I'm guessing they may fly her from Oz to the UK, also guessing this would probably be unlikely? |
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Post by agile on Feb 10, 2024 18:00:56 GMT 12
I don't know any more than the next bloke about any of this (I just read the links ;-) ), but it seems pretty unlikely to me that such a rare and valuable aircraft will be flown to the UK.
To give one reason amongst a plethora, when the aircraft were ferried out here they were fitted with 100 gallon drop tanks and fuselage tanks, which I'm sure no one is taking the trouble to make/restore.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2024 7:34:09 GMT 12
Seeing the registration brought a tear to my eye. What a lovely gesture.
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Post by No longer identifiable on Feb 22, 2024 19:05:34 GMT 12
Zac, I agree with you re the registration in honour of Lord Powell of Ardmore.
On a more whimsical note, it's kind of unique that Rod Lewis will be the only guy in history to have purchased not one, but two band-new Mosquitos from the factory (or at least "new" in that they have been raised from the dead).
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Feb 23, 2024 18:48:59 GMT 12
I only saw it from across the other side of the airfield, but it looked like the Mosquito was getting fueled up this afternoon - at the very least it was out of the hangar. I don't think it ran and it certainly didn't fly.
Edit - Just saw in the other thread that the engines were run.
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you mentioned number 5 (5!!) for Peter Monk. If I recall correctly this is a B.IV? 
