Quoting from Stuart Howe’s excellent work “Mosquito Survivors” – Aston Publications, 1986. Here is a brief summary of TW117:
Built at Leavesden as a T.III early 1946
Delivered to No.15 MU Wroughton, 30/5/46
No 2 Armament Practice Station, Acklington, 22/7/47
Station Flight, Linton-on-Ouse, 26/10/49. Coded MS-A and used for DH Hornet conversion training & general “hack” duties
No 204 Advanced Flying School, 31/7/51 – damaged at some point and sent to Brooklands Aviation, Sywell, for repair 13/5/52.
No 58 Sqdn, Benson, 28/2/53 coded “OT”
Stored at Hawarden 30/4/54
To Kemble, 30/9/56
To Hawarden, 30/11/56
To No 27 MU, Shawbury, 31/7/58
No 3 CAACU, Exeter, 31/3/60 – camouflaged and coded “Z”
9/5/63 led a formation of four Mosquitos for the “Official Last Flypast”, flown by Harry Ellis.
30/5/63 allocated to the RAF Museum and flown to Henlow, officially SOC 31/5/63
Loaned to Hamish Mahaddie for use in “633 Squadron” but returned to Exeter where between 16-31/7/63 Harry Ellis used it and TA719 to convert film pilots onto type (2 hrs per pilot)
Flown to Bovingdon and repainted as “HT-M” with serial “HR155”, used for flying sequences and then returned to Henlow at the end of filming.
Moved to Hendon 1971 and resprayed in situ in all-silver training colours, one of the original museum aircraft on shown when opened on 15/11/72.
Moved to Bomber Command Hall 4/83
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