"Residents of Virginia Beach, Va. may soon be hearing the distinctive growl of twin Rolls Royce Merlin engines overhead, thanks to that city's Military Aviation Museum.
According to a story published earlier this week on Warbird News, the historical flight center, which is located about 200 miles south of Washington, DC, will unveil a fully restored World War Two de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito at its spring airshow next weekend. Currently, it's the only known flying Mosquito in existence – the last one was lost in an accident in 1996.
The plane was restored over the past eight years and then test flown in 2012 by a team of engineers in New Zealand. The mostly plywood, twin-engine fighter-bomber was then disassembled and shipped to the United States where technicians with the museum have been rebuilding it. The aircraft is painted up to resemble a DH.98 Mosquito of the NZRAF 487th Squadron.
Between 1940 and 1950, nearly 8,000 de Havilland DH.98 Mosquitoes served in the air forces of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and even the United States where they excelled in night fighter, reconnaissance, anti-shipping and precision bombing roles. In fact, Mosquitos flew some of the most incredible Allied air missions of the Second World War…"
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