http://www.fighterfactory.net/restoration/dehavilland-mosquito-aircraft.php
I presume this is KA114.
Dennis
By: Mark V - 4th January 2008 at 18:25
This is the aircraft featured in the latest Flypast isn’t it?
Yep the same one – KA114. The difference being that the article was done prior to the big milestone of the wings completion and arrival at Avspecs a few weeks ago.
By: darrenharbar - 4th January 2008 at 15:28
This is the aircraft featured in the latest Flypast isn’t it?
By: ajdawson - 4th January 2008 at 15:12
I’m unfortunately somewhat behind with the updates for www.mossie.org at the moment, mainly due to the addition to the family least year of my daughter, Aeryn.
I’m slowly starting to get more time to do updates to the site and hope to have things more back to normal shortly!
Andy
By: DazDaMan - 3rd January 2008 at 19:51
Positively mouthwatering….!
By: Stieglitz - 3rd January 2008 at 18:49
Great news!!! Very nice to see such a progress! Thanks for the update MarkV!
Stieglitz
By: Mark V - 3rd January 2008 at 18:47
Wing is now finished and was delivered to Aspecs just before Christmas. It has been temporarily mated to the fuselage – fabulous progress! For new pictures see http://www.fighterfactory.com/restoration/dehavilland-mosquito-aircraft.php
By: HP57 - 10th February 2005 at 18:28
Jerry Yagen’s project is indeed KA114. Glyn Powell is producing a new wooden fuselage, AvSpecs in Auckland is taking care of the rest.
Hey, that’s great news and saves Mr Powell a lot of extra work. This will probably speed up the reconstruction of Mossies.
Cheers
Cees
By: DaveM2 - 10th February 2005 at 09:31
Perhaps it would have been a good idea for the web site to say the pics were ‘representative’ of the new Mossie being built. 🙂
Dave
By: happymeal - 10th February 2005 at 09:23
Jerry Yagen’s project is indeed KA114. Glyn Powell is producing a new wooden fuselage, AvSpecs in Auckland is taking care of the rest.
By: mark_pilkington - 10th February 2005 at 08:42
Actually both the fuselage in the second picture, and the rebuilt rear fuselage in the third both appear to be of DH98 mk XVI A52-600 under restoration at Point Cook Australia for the RAAF Museum (the AWM already have their mossie completed and on display)
http://www.raafmuseum.com.au/raaf2/html/restorations.htm
again not sure why they are credited as this other rebuild?
regards
Mark Pilkington
By: Firebird - 9th February 2005 at 18:32
Also mossie.org has KA114 as little more than remains, held in Surrey UK for the Zaleskis.
Steve, that’s the Surrey in British Columbia, Canada……. 😉
By: Bruce - 9th February 2005 at 16:43
A52-600 is now under restoration for the Australian War Memorial, and all thoughts of it flying again have been dropped. A52-600 is indeed shown in one of those pictures.
Bruce
By: Arabella-Cox - 9th February 2005 at 15:55
Hmm, very nice looking restoration, but there seems to be a little bit of contradictory information out there.
Fighter factory have it shown as an FB Mk26, which if true would be KA114, but the second photo on this page http://www.fighterfactory.net/airplane-gallery/dehavilland-mosquito-photos.php looks very much like the same airframe in the second photo on this page http://www.mossie.org/A52-600.htm which identifies it as A52-600, a PR XVI under restoration to fly in Oz. Also mossie.org has KA114 as little more than remains, held in Surrey UK for the Zaleskis.
Who’s right? I’d guess Fighter Factory would have a pretty good idea of what they’re working on and who it’s for ;), but it just seems odd that there’s such a contradiction, especially given that the fuselage shown on the first Fighter Factory page seems to be bare wood so far, with no doped covering.
I’m confused. (not that it takes much!)
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