There Are Only 30 De Havilland DH98 Mosquitos

Fully restored DeHavilland DH98 Mosquito at The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum in Everett Washington. This beauty was built in England in 1945. She flew until 1964 then went on display at the Imperial War Museum until 1988. In 2003 she was sold to Paul Allen and shipped to Avspecs Ltd in New Zealand for a complete restoration. By 2016 she was complete and assembled at Paine Field. In 2017 she was flying again, one of only four flying Mosquitos in the world. Today she sits indoors and is available to be viewed everyday. She is part of the huge collection put together by Paul Allen. Most of it is at Paine Field. The museum closed in 2020 for Covid but reopened in 2023 with a new owner who intends to keep the collection together. 7619 Mosquitos were built and today 30 survive. This flyable Mosquito has not flown since 2019 but it was fully serviced in 2024 and the engines were run on August 2, 2024.

This video is ten minutes of me looking at her indoors then three more minutes of the same plane flying in 2017. I spend ten minutes looking at her in complete awe in the big hanger. She's perfect, really amazing to see.
Next I follow with some flying footage from Jason R Fortenbacher of Fight To Fly Photography. He has filmed this airplane several times and was gracious to let me use his footage. Thank-you Jason.
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