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Re: Canadian Mosquito's
Alex
From what I can see at face value, you rely on Air Britain's RAF Aircraft KA100 to KZ999. These details regarding the Mossies are not entirely correct and I have made a couple of changes.
Not sure if you have Phil Butler/Dan Hagedorn's Air Arsenal North America where the confusion regarding these Mosquitoes is rather well told although no detailed production list is given.
I assume you have another Air Britain book, The British Air Commission and lend lease? On page 154 and 158 you get quite a lot of details regarding aircraft which never entered the records anywhere since they were lost in transit or crashed before delivery so they are neither on RCAF nor RAF charge.
Finally, there is Griffin's book Canadian Military Aircraft which give most but not all details such as why KA102 is not recorded either with RCAF or RAF, but I have added a note that KA102 was retained by DHC and their internal Directory for Technical Development. Presumably it stayed with them and was scrapped at some unknown date. Loads of Mossies in the range KA101 to 540 went straight into storage. Lots of them were sold to China in late 1947. Some even found their way into the Canadian civil register.
Cheers
Stig
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