The Mosquito was moved over the weekend. Omaka-based restoration shop JEM Aviation has posted on Facebook about the move:
A big weekend with the final dismantling and moving of the Smith family Mosquito to Omaka.
Al’s advance crew were able to extract her from her long term hangar on Friday and then on Saturday the rest of the team role in to get the fuselage removed from the wing and both installed on Avspecs shipping frames.
The Avapecs previous experience with these machines certainly helped and the job was pretty painless, helped by great weather conditions.
Unfortunately a missing piece of the shopping frame meant a new piece had to be fabricated and this put pressure on time frames to get her back to Omaka….
She got there in the end though, no doubt due to the commitment of the Muscles Lifting crew.
As before, many of the JEM Aviation crew were there in their own time to assist with this historic move.
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 01 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 02 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 03 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 04 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 05 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 06 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 07 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 08 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 260920 JEM Aviation 09 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 270920 JEM Aviation 01 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
NZ2336 Mapua 270920 JEM Aviation 02 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
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