09/30/2008. Produced by Airspeed as a B.Mk.35 in 1946, this aircraft was delivered to the RAF with s/n RS709, later it was converted to a TT.Mk.35 target tug. It came on the civil registry as G-ASKA on July 11, 1963. Owned by Mirisch Films at Bovington, UK, it flew in the movie "633 Squadron", wearing the markings of the Mosquito FB.Mk.IV HR113/HT-D. Within a year it changed hands twice, first to T.G. Mahaddie of Bovington, thereafter to Peter F. M. Thomas of the Skyfame Museum at Staverton, and again became a movie star when if flew in "Mosquito Squadron" in June 1968.

Still based in the UK, it was registered as N9797 to Ed A. Jurist of Vintage Aircraft International, Nyack, New York, USA in August 1969. The next owner was the Confederate Air Force at Harlingen, Texas, receiving the aircraft on December 11, 1971. In April 1975 David Tallichet of Yesterdays Air Force at Chino, California acquired the aircraft, it was loaned to the Combat Air Museum as Topeka, Kansas from 1976 till it was sold to Doug Arnold of Warbirds of GB, at Blackbushe, UK, where it arrived on November 28, 1979, being registered as G-MOSI on November 10, 1981.

The aircraft was overhauled, flying again in September 1983, and sold to David Zeuschel of Van Nuys, California, in 1984. It was acquired by the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, in July 1984. G-MOSI is seen here being flown by George Aird and Dave Zeuschel, as it passed through at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Hamilton on its delivery flight to the USAF Museum. Coded NS519/P it is displayed as a Mosquito PR.Mk.XVI weather reconnaissance aircraft as used by the USAAF 653rd Bombardment Squadron based in England in 1944-1945.