Go to your local mobile home or caravan site, and ask if they have any old ones for sale to be taken off site. I used to keep my plant gang happy that way very cheaply.

The NF38 was not used by the RAF. The NF36 was in service until 1953.

Simon Beck is American and it was their practice that pilots and navs were commissioned and the rest of the crew were other ranks.
In the RAF the practice was quite different and it was quite possible to have a sergeant pilot with commissioned officers as part of his crew. The pilot was the captain regardless of rank.

I would confirm that the Mossie DID not have handed props.

One of the funniest incidents with a Mossie that I witnessed occurred at Leeming when we were on the OCU. There had been a succession of accidents which upset the CO, so, one morning he leapt into the T3, reputedly saying “I’ll show these boys how to fly”.

My pilot and I had just landed and were walking back from our aircraft when we were alerted to the T3 taxying very fast out to the runway, so we stopped to watch.
He turned on to the runway, opened both throttles to full, and I swear did not travel 100 yards. The aircraft swung visciously, the undercarriage collapsed, as was normal for the Mossie, and it came to rest at right angles to the runway, but still on it.

One reason for the Mossie not being used to the exclusion of the heavies, was that they were not being produced in sufficient numbers until later, whereas the heavies were rolling off the production lines faster than the Germans could shoot them down.
Another factor for the greater night losses was the weather and poor nav aids, not all losses were due to enemy action. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of losses between direct enemy action and accidents.
Whatever, as others have said, this country owes a huge debt of gratitude to those men who flew in all those aircraft, be they British or American. And we the British did not give them the credit they deserved, our politicians have always been a devious bunch.

Also include Hawkinge BoB museum and the memorial at Capel le Ferne.

Has to be the incomparable British built Merlin.
Won the BoB, turned the Mustang into a first class fighter.