mosquito remains
Good Question!
Once you have scavanged all of the metal fittings and used the original woodwork as a 3D reference, you will have either picked the original to pieces, and reduced it to matchwood, or have two mosquitos on your hands, and transferred the data-plates.
The original fuselage (If saved) would still form a good exhibit in its own rite, if kept as it is. What would be the difference between this and the Halifax at Hendon? This is the tricky question of provenance, once again though.
They are doing a great job, however. I would much prefer to see a re-built mosquito fly, than rot in a shed somewhere.
My project could potentially use an original Sea Hornet rear fuselage in its construction, but these relics have laid in a field for decades before being rescued. They are reduced in strength and out of shape, and damaged. Once new bulkheads and skins have been replaced, what is original? The original relic has historical significance in its own rite, even though it is not complete, it represents a record of the design of the time. This is why I decided to do a newly built fuselage/cockpit to sympathetically display original parts.
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