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http://key.aero/view_news.asp?ID=2802&t ... n=historic also shows a video of the ongoing restoration.
But as always, restoration projects are notorious for their unexpected delays...Video: Mosquito to fly next year?
A Mosquito under restoration in New Zealand may fly next year.
Gary Parsons - 29-Nov-2010
November 29: The EAA reports that the restoration of a flyable de Havilland Mosquito in New Zealand is progressing well and on track for completion in early 2011.
KA114 is a Canadian-built de Havilland Mosquito FB26 that was rescued from a farm in Alberta in 1978 when it was bought by the Canadian Museum of Flight and Transport.
It was later purchased by Gerald Yagen, president of Tidewater Tech, a group of schools offering associate degrees in nursing, electronics, computers and such vocations,
and also of the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, a mechanics' school of which Yagen’s Fighter Factory collection of warbirds is a subsidiary.
Yagen commissioned Avspecs in South Auckland, New Zealand to undertake the enormous restoration –
there was little of the original wooden structure left, with only the metal spars and framework left on which to work.
KA114 is expected to fly by Easter 2011 and is planned to make its debut at the Ardmore Air Show.
Yagen wants to bring the Mosquito to the UK before taking it to its permanent home at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, USA.
