Ordered as a B.XVI but
delivered as a B.35. Batch delivered 11 Jul 45 - 9 Nov 45.
Merlin 113/114 Engines. A total of 274 Mosquito B.35s
were built, 65 by Airspeed, the rest at Hatfield by de
Havilland, from a grand total of 7,781
Ordered from A.V. Roe, Newton Heath to contract B61695/39 for 950
Anson Mk.1 aircraft, serials W1505-W2611, as the 9th production
batch for the RAF. Delivered Sep.40-Jun.41.
Assembled at Kawasaki’s’ Kagamigahara factory in the last week of June 1945; production for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force ceased
in August 1945, totalling some 390 aircraft.
Part of a batch of
100 originally ordered as Manchesters in 1939 of which only the first 43
were built as such, the remaining 57, including R5868 being completed as
Lancasters,
delivered between Mar 41 and Aug 42.
ZE887's final flight was on 4th March, 2010, a sortie from RAF Leuchars. The F.3 came to the RAF Museum, Hendon on 10th October of that year in her former 43 Squadron display c/s. 'GF' logged almost 4.967 flying hours. Gloria Finis...?
The restoration of the RAF Museum's Dolphin can be traced back to 1967 and incorporaties parts from Dolphins D3725, D5329 and C4033, with the rear fuselage section coming from C3988. An original Hispano-Suiza V8 will be fitted later.
BL614 saw active service with a number of RAF squadrons and is seen here in her 222 (Natal) Squadron markings, as flown by Sgt J.W. MacDonald in the early hours of 19th August 1942, in support of 'Operation Jubilee', the assault on Dieppe, France.
A preserved Harrier GR.3, this is XZ997 at the RAF Museum at Hendon in 2007. Difficult to photograph though, most angles silhouette her against large bright windows!