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Return to: George E. Stewart, DFC – Hamiltonian, Mosquito combat pilot, anti Communist Chinese patriotFull resolution (5184 × 3456)
This Mosquito is owned by the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach and was originally built in Downsview as a fighter/bomber Mk XVI and disposed of as surplus in 1948. It would spend the next 30 years on a farm in Alberta before becoming an asset of the Canadian Museum of Flight & Transportation and then MAM acquired it in 2004. It was restored as the only flight worthy Mosquito in 2012 by specialists in New Zealand with George providing considerable consultation. In fact George flew this plane during Hamilton Skyfest 2014 which I was unable to attend and this shot occurred the very next year in 2015.