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Title: Mosquito flies again in NZ
Post by: save on February 26, 2020, 02:42:23 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=YEyDlgJYIF8&feature=emb_logo

old video but nice
Title: Re: Mosquito flies again in NZ
Post by: save on February 26, 2020, 02:43:20 AM
double
Title: Re: Mosquito flies again in NZ
Post by: bozon on February 26, 2020, 07:45:33 AM
KA114.

I remember that day. I emptied two boxes of tissues just from the thought that the world has a flying Mosquito again.

I am saving money to pay these kiwis to build one for me.
Only 112 years to go  :aok  :x
Title: Re: Mosquito flies again in NZ
Post by: Drano on February 26, 2020, 08:29:19 AM
This bird is our at least was in the USA. I saw it at the Reading Airshow a few years back when it was brand new. That outfit in NZ has built another since. A FB model.

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Title: Re: Mosquito flies again in NZ
Post by: toasted on February 26, 2020, 01:58:27 PM
This bird is our at least was in the USA. I saw it at the Reading Airshow a few years back when it was brand new. That outfit in NZ has built another since. A FB model.

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The first one went to Jerry Yagen's collection at Virginia Beach in the USA.        KA114
It looks like they recently finished another that went to the us also...               PZ474

Enter Rod Lewis of Lewis Air Legends and Warren Denholm of Avspecs New Zealand.  Avspecs had restored a couple of other aircraft for Rod and had just completed the first ever restoration to flight of a de Havilland Mosquito, KA114 for Jerry Yagen of Virginia Beach.  Warren knew Rod was looking to expand his collect so it was a natural choice for Rod to engage Avspecs to rebuild PZ474. She was shipped to New Zealand in Feb 2014 and so began the nearly 5 year restoration back to airworthy.
Her first post restoration flight was carried out on Jan 13th2019 at Ardmore New Zealand with  Steve Hinton of California as test pilot and Warren Denholm of Avspecs as the observer.
PZ474 now lives in San Antonio Texas as part of the Lewis Air Legends collection.