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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito
    Latest Model:Mosquito T.43
    Last Military Serial:NZ2305 RNZAF
    Construction Number:not known
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Australia Mosquito T.4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a Mosquito FB.40 by de Havilland Australia at Sydney, Australia.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A52-19.
    Converted on production line to.

    Converted to a Mosquito T.43 by de Havilland Australia at Sydney, Australia.

    6 August 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A52-1053 as a Mosquito T.43.

    2 April 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ2305.

    1 May 1953

    To Robin Coleman.
    Stored on his farm on Galpins line near Marton.

    1967

    Based at Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island.
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    Aircraft was in a derelict condition and the very long process of restoration commenced.

    14 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, NZ

    14 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, NZ
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