N88972 - North American B-25D Mitchell - Historic Flight Foundation
at Abbotsfort International Airport (YXX)

Abbotsford Air Show 2015

c/n 43-3318 - built in 1943 for the USAF -
operated by the RCAF between 1944 and 1960 as KL161 -

painted as RAF KL161 VO-B "Grumpy"

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N88972 - North American B-25D Mitchell - Historic Flight Foundation
at Abbotsfort International Airport (YXX)

Abbotsford Air Show 2015

c/n 43-3318 - built in 1943 for the USAF -
operated by the RCAF between 1944 and 1960 as KL161 -

painted as RAF KL161 VO-B "Grumpy"

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C-FHMJ (VR796) - deHavilland DH-98 Mosquito B.35 - reg. to Robert Jens (Royal Air Force colours)
at Abbotsford International Airport (YXX)

2021: De Havilland Mosquito B35 VR796 (C-FHMJ) is offered for sale by its owner Robert Jens of Richmond (BC), Canada. This bomber version of the famous “Mossie” was fully restored in the years 2000 to 2014, making its first flight on 16 June 2014.

It seems to have made its last flight in 2015. This is not unlikely as it is offered with twenty hours Total Time Since Overhaul. C-FHMJ is one of the less than fifty survivors of the type of which 7781 were built.

VR796 was built by the British Airspeed factories. It spent eight years in storage at RAF Silloth (UK), before being sold to Canada in 1954.

Registered as CF-HML it was used for aerial cartography by Spartan Air Services Ltd, Ottawa (ONT) from November 1954 to 1963.

After three years of open storage, the aircraft was bought by Don Campbell, who had plans for its rebuild. But these plans failed and Ed Zalesky acquired the project only to store it from 1986 to 2000. By that time Robert Jens got interested and decided to go for a full restoration to airworthy status.

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C-FHMJ (VR796) - deHavilland DH-98 Mosquito B.35 - reg. to Robert Jens (Royal Canadian Air Force colours)

Never saw active service. Built after the war in 1947 the aircraft went directly into storage.Later operated by Spartan Air Services as CF-HML on photo-surveys.
Restoration completed 2014

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CF-GME - North American AT-6 (Noorduyn) Harvard 2 - Canadian Museum of Flight

at Abbotsford International Airport (YXX) during the 2015 Abbotsford Air Show


c/n 07-144, built in1941 under license by Noorduyn Aircraft

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