Mike, from Warbirds Online – De Havilland Mosquito restorations in New-Zealand
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 around a year to complete. Glyn has been contracted by Avspecs of Ardmore NZ to build the two fuselages in addition to the work he completed earlier for them in the construction of Jerry Yagen’s Mosquito FB Mk26 KA114 for which he constructed the wing and fuselage wooden assemblies. Avspecs is highly regarded for their Mosquito restoration work in getting KA114 flying and now has two more on the way.
The first fuselage is now confirmed to be for a USA based operator. This aircraft was, at the time of our last visit to Avspecs possibly going to utilize its original fuselage. The decision has now been made to build a new structure and Glyn is building the fuselage whilst the wing construction for it is well under way at Avspecs of Ardmore NZ. The wing and fuselage will then be mated and the aircraft completed in much the same way as Jerry Yagen’s Mosquito FB Mk26 KA114 which flew in 2012 and is now based in the USA with Jerry’s collection. Another fuselage will then be constructed for a yet to be announced Mosquito restoration project, which is underway and will also be constructed and flown in New Zealand. The two fuselages are expected to take Glyn around 2 years in total to complete.
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