Mosquito VR796 & Spitfire TZ138 reportedly for sale

[dhfan]

That's inflation for you. I'm pretty sure Kermit Weeks paid £100,000 for RS712 in 1981-ish.

[Zac Yates]

I try not to be the one saying where aircraft should go, but would CWHM or VWC have the resources and desire to acquire the Mosquito?

[martin_sam_2000]

I try not to be the one saying where aircraft should go, but would CWHM or VWC have the resources and desire to acquire the Mosquito?

desire....YES!!!

Resources and long term viability...questionable. Canada does not have the same market as the U.S. for warbirds and the distances are so vast that it is hard to get to more than a handful of large airshows.

It will be interesting to see where it ends up going.

Sean

[Sopwith]

Wonder whether they will fetch the asking price with the Covid problem hanging over us all?

[Firebird]

That's inflation for you. I'm pretty sure Kermit Weeks paid £100,000 for RS712 in 1981-ish.

Correct, he did pay £100k for it.

[Mike]

10million for the Mossie

Yes, but that’s $10m Canadian, so about $1,500 US

[Spitty]

They say its $8mill to build so $10mill to sell so $2mill profit?

[Mike]

No

Because this one wasn’t built from new, it was restored slowly over several decades using largely original material.

[Michel Lemieux]

As a much younger kid prior to the internet, I remember this AC being connected to the Zaleski brothers in Canada. Possibly even Neil Rose who had a Hurricane.

It was up for sale just in a magazine ad with just the wooded airframe being worked on.

Even then I was salivating over it!

[DH82EH]

Me too Michel!
I think we are probably about the same vintage

[Michel Lemieux]

hehe....glad to hear I am not alone in thinking I'm getting old......

But I still think I've got the ripe stuff!

[JohnTerrell]

Here are some scans from way back in the December 1996 issue of "Warbirds International" magazine, Volume 15, Number 9, when the Mosquito was among a number of warbird projects that the Zaleskys were selling. (I was 9 at the time)

[Michel Lemieux]

Thank you Mr John!

U made my day!!!!

[C VEICH]

I received a bunch of pics of the Mossie as it neared the end of its rebuild but, for the life of me, I cannot remember from whom. These were from June of 2013 according to the pic titles.

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[C VEICH]

Some more from 2013.

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