Flying Heritage Museum’s Newly Restored Mosquito Performs First US Flight [Video]

On Friday, the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum’s (FHCAM) newly restored de Havilland Mosquito performed its first US flight from Paine Field in Washington State.

As previously reported, the aircraft (previously TV959) is a TIII trainer previously held by the Imperial War Museum. It arrived at the FHCAM’s Everett, Washington facility in December after being fully restored by Avspecs Ltd. of Ardmore, New Zealand.

The machine performed its first post restoration flight from Ardmore last September wearing the temporary markings of NZ2337/TE757, a Standard Motors-built Mossie that was destroyed in a hangar fire at Ohakea in 1950. It was then disassembled and shipped to its new home in the US, where it was repainted to represent NS838, “Wag’s War-Wagon”, the machine in which Flight Officer Alan Wagner of No. 605 Squadron became an ace in March 1944.

Friday’s test flight went smoothly and was captured in the video below. The public will reportedly have a chance to see it in action at FHCAM’s SkyFair on July 22.

The Mosquitos first test flight went smoothly and it is safely back on the ground! Posted by Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum on Friday, June 23, 2017





(via Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum and Fight to Fly Photography Thanks, Pascal!)