Mosquito wing available?

What a waste. That aircraft was flown all the way across the Pacifid when its first US owner bought it. That would have been an interesting trip. i wonder if there are photos around, and I wonder where it stopped off along the way.

What a shame the remains are not to come back to NZ where it could be combined into one of the flying projects that are going on here. 🙁

Jim Merizan ownedex-RNZAF Mosquito NZ2384, formerly ZK-BCV. What has become of that Mosquito? It was in flying condition in the USA for some time.

I wish it would come home to New Zealand.

It wasnt in flying condition for long, and heavily deteriorated to the point where its back broke, before Jim Merizan acquired it.

It was supposed to have been traded to the Swedish Air Force Museum for the Drakens, but it was supposed to have been completed before shipment to Sweden.

The wing has been in store, outside at Chino for at least three years, and probably longer.

Bruce

Hej SEF!
I was told that the two Drakens in the Göteborg Aeroseum, 35528 and 35586 were the ones that came back from the USA. If they are not, what happened to the one that you say did come back? I was also told that 35528 has an incorrect canopy because it came back.
Other local Drakens are 35616 cut away in the Volvo Museum, 35576 and the nose of 35542, both at Svedinos.
These are the numbers painted on them, but of course they could be incorrect.
I for one would be very pleased to have the facts from you!

Hej Papa Lima!

Sorry, my mistake! 35420 was sold to Denmark for spares in 1987 – the one I meant was 35528, now preserved at Aeroseum. I stand corrected 🙂

35586 never been stateside – it is a J 35J which was in service until 1998.

What do you mean “put out to grass at Chino”, do you mean scrapped? Or just stuck outside of the hangar?

Jim Merizan ownedex-RNZAF Mosquito NZ2384, formerly ZK-BCV. What has become of that Mosquito? It was in flying condition in the USA for some time.

I wish it would come home to New Zealand.

i have pics taken last year if you are interested, wings, 2 engines, wing has some restoration done but still in rough shape

Hej SEF!
I was told that the two Drakens in the Göteborg Aeroseum, 35528 and 35586 were the ones that came back from the USA. If they are not, what happened to the one that you say did come back? I was also told that 35528 has an incorrect canopy because it came back.
Other local Drakens are 35616 cut away in the Volvo Museum, 35576 and the nose of 35542, both at Svedinos.
These are the numbers painted on them, but of course they could be incorrect.
I for one would be very pleased to have the facts from you!

The current issue of Air Classics has a short item on pg14 indicating that 5 Saab Drakens have recently been put out to grass at Chino, Ca, together with a Mosquito wing😮

It would seem that the Drakens were involved in a deal in which a Mosquito would be sent to Sweden.

Anybody got any idea as to whether there is any truth in this – and if so is there a wing looking for a good home?

The five Drakens are probably ex Danish ones.

Two Swedish AF Draken’s, J 35F-1 35420 and J 35F-2 35543, were used in this deal between the Swedish AF Museum and Jim Merizan in the late 1980s. 35420 (the second to arrive in the US) was bought back by th Swedish Govt in ca 1990 and 35543 had by then been registered and flown as N35543.

Edit. J 35F-1 35420 was sold to Denmark for spares in 1987, the concerned aircraft is J 35F-2 35528 now preserved at Aeroseum, Gothenburgh.

The Mosquito wing belong to the Swedish AF Museum.

Thanks Eddie,

I always mix those two up, must be the similar first names:)

Cheers

Cees

Jim Merizan’s, actually, Cees. Off PZ474…

The current issue of Air Classics has a short item on pg14 indicating that 5 Saab Drakens have recently been put out to grass at Chino, Ca, together with a Mosquito wing😮

It would seem that the Drakens were involved in a deal in which a Mosquito would be sent to Sweden.

Anybody got any idea as to whether there is any truth in this – and if so is there a wing looking for a good home?

Could that be Jim Dearborn’s wing?

Cees