Warbirds Online has a great affection for the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (known as the Wooden Wonder) in its many variants, not least of all because the type was built under license here in Australia during and after WW11 and served the RAAF with distinction although for a number of reasons it was too late […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft
Glyn Powell has recently been reorganizing and preparing to take on the next phase in the de Havilland Mosquito restoration work at his Drury Hills base, near Auckland New Zealand. At the time of our visit in January 2014, work was about to commence on the construction of two fuselages with each likely to take […]
NZ Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
On 27 Sept 2012, the de Havilland Mosquito DH98 FB Mk26 KA114 flew again at Ardmore airfield in New Zealand for the first time since 1945. The Mosquito was a Canadian built aircraft and was delivered to the RCAF in 1945 and went straight into storage, later serving briefly with 77 Operational Training Unit and then back […]
NZ Warbirds, Warbirds
In New Zealand, following on from the first flight of Jerry Yegans de Havilland Mosquito, FB Mk26 KA114, comes news of two further Mosquito restorations in the wings and progressing well. Glyn Powell’s de Havilland Mosquito is an Australian built FB Mk40, converted to T Mk43 standard as a trainer and flown post war by the RNZAF […]
NZ Warbirds, Warbirds