The People’s Mosquito Ltd, invites you to support the most exciting aviation restoration project in the world today. After close consultation with Retrotec Ltd, the People’s Mosquito now has an achievable, structured five-year engineering plan in place to return RL249 to UK skies. We need to fundraise £499,000 over the next 12 months to …
The People’s Mosquito announces targeted fundraising to launch UK build Read More »
Saturday 7 April saw several members of the TPM board join supporters of the Historic Aircraft Collection at Duxford to hear Guy Black, HAC’s Engineering Director, give a presentation on the restoration of his de Havilland DH9. The packed event, the final such talk from this year’s HAC at Home series, also gave us the …
People’s Mosquito welcomes our latest honorary lifetime members – Retrotec Read More »
The People’s Mosquito Ltd, a UK aviation restoration charity established to return a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB.VI to UK skies is delighted to announce that they have contracted with Retrotec Ltd, one of the world’s premier aircraft restoration providers, to build and test to final airworthiness acceptance, this versatile World War II aircraft. The …
The People’s Mosquito contracts with Retrotec Ltd to build its Mosquito FB VI, RL249 Read More »
As recently announced by John Lilley, Chairman and Managing Director, The People’s Mosquito is in detailed discussions to bring a significant proportion of our Mosquito restoration back to the UK. The decision follows the culmination of months of effort behind the scenes in reviewing and analysing more than 22,300 De Havilland technical drawings, donated in …
Where will The People’s Mosquito be based? It’s a question that frequently arises on and offline – from both our supporters and the wider aviation community – where will The People’s Mosquito be based when she’s operational? The board has, in fact, been discussing widespread online speculation on the topic this week. In light of …
News may have filtered out already but we are proud to announce the launch of the official TPM promotional video. It features some amazing colour footage shot in August 1944 by Flying Officer Brian Harris DFC, serving as a Mosquito Navigator with RAF 627 Sqn. The footage was kindly released to The People’s Mosquito for …
The People’s Mosquito has a simple vision: to see the return to the UK skies of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito. During the Second World War many aircraft were funded by the people: companies, towns, villages and organisations. We would like to repeat that model by asking the people of the United Kingdom to help …
