Canadian Mosquito for sale

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.

Photos by Peter Starling and Airtimehelicopters