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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito
    Latest Model:Mosquito
    Last Military Serial:W4050 RAF
    Construction Number:98001
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Mosquito sn W4050 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre / Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire / Herts, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Mosquito.
    This is the prototype Mosquito.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n W4050.

    25 November 1940

    First flight.

    December 1943

    Last flight.

    1946

    To de Havilland Technical School, Salisbury Hall.

    From 1946 to By 1959

    To W. J. S. Baird, Hatfield.

    Placed in storage at Hatfield.

    Stored at Panshanger.

    Stored at Hatfield.

    Stored at Chester.

    Stored at Hatfield.

    October 1958

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Hatfield to Salisbury Hall.

    May 1959

    To de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre/Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire/Herts, England.
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    16 December 1959

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    From By 2001 to By 2003

    Restored.
    Restored to static display condition.

    One of the two Merlins was restored to running condition.

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 May 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the De Havilland Museum at London Colney

    22 April 2011


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at De Havilland Aircraft Museum, London Colney, Hertfordshire, England

    8 May 2023


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    The Mosquito Page
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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