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Serial #: A52-319 Construction #: DH.3236 Civil Registration: VH-WAD |
Model: Mosquito FB Mk. 40 PR Mk. 41 Name: None Status: Static Display Last info: 2002 |
De Havilland Australia, Bankstown, 19??.
- Initially started as FB Mk. 40 as A52-210.
- Modified to PR Mk. 41 and given serial number A52-319.
Delivered to RAAF as A52-319.
- BOC: Feb. 18, 1948.
- SOC: March 20, 1953.
Captain James Woods, Perth, WA, March 20, 1953-1969.
- Delivered to Perth Sept. 10, 1953 for London to
Christchurch Air race, Entry Withdrawn.
- Registered as VH-WAD, Sept. 23, 1953.
Certificate of Airworthiness suspended and removed from registry, Oct. 12, 1953.
- Stored in hanger, Perth Airport, WA, 1953-1963.
- Loaned to Air Force Association, Perth Airport, Ja. 1963-1967.
-- Displayed.
Became derelict, moved to airport dump, July 1967-1969.
James A. Harwood, Perth, WA, Jan. 1969.
- Fuselage badly damaged during dismantling, Jan. 8, 1969.
- Stored dismantled in warehouse, Perth, WA, Jan. 1969-1972.
Ed A. Jurist/Vintage Aircraft International, Nyack, NJ, 1969.
David M. Kubista, Tucson, AZ, June 1971.
- Crated aboard SS Manora, from Freemantle, May 23, 1972.
- Stored Port Melbourne, pending transit to USA, 1972-1979.
Auctioned to recover shipping costs, Jan. 22, 1979.
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Jan. 22, 1979-2002.
- Restored to static display.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. www.mossie.org |
Photo Source(s): None. |
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