List of de Havilland Mosquito operators

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The following are operators of the de Havilland Mosquito:

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Military operators

Australia

Royal Australian Air Force

Belgium

Belgian Air Force 11 Squadron, 1 Wing

Canada

Royal Canadian Air Force

China

Republic of China Air Force

People's Republic of China

People's Liberation Army Air Force

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Air Force

Dominican Republic

Dominican Air Force
Dominican AF De Havilland Mosquito FB.6 DH.98 Mosquito FB.6 301 Dominica RWY 07.48 edited-2.jpg
Dominican AF De Havilland Mosquito FB.6

France

French Air Force

Haiti

Haitian Air Force

Israel

Israeli Air Force

New Zealand

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Norway

Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service
Royal Norwegian Air Force

Poland

De Havilland Mosquito NF.XIX of the Royal Swedish Air Force in October 1949. DH.98 Mosquito NFXIX MM638 RSwAF RWY 10.49 edited-2.jpg
De Havilland Mosquito NF.XIX of the Royal Swedish Air Force in October 1949.
De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB.VI NS930 of the Turkish Air Force at Manchester (Ringway) Airport in 1947 DH.98 Mosquito FB.6 NS930 Turkey RWY 04.47 edited-2.jpg
De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB.VI NS930 of the Turkish Air Force at Manchester (Ringway) Airport in 1947
Polish Air Forces on exile in Great Britain

South Africa

South African Air Force

Soviet Union

Soviet Air Force

Sweden

Royal Swedish Air Force

Switzerland

Swiss Air Force

Turkey

Turkish Air Force

United Kingdom

Royal Air Force
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm

United States

De Havilland of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bombardment Group, at RAF Watton England. 25bg-mosquito.jpg
De Havilland of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bombardment Group, at RAF Watton England.
United States Army Air Forces [5]

Venezuela

Venezuelan Air Force

Yugoslavia

SFR Yugoslav Air Force

Civil operators

Canada

De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B.35 CF-HML of Spartan Air Services, Ottawa, Ontario. DH.98 Mosquito B.35 CF-HML Spartan AS Derby 3.04.55 edited-2.jpg
De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B.35 CF-HML of Spartan Air Services, Ottawa, Ontario.
Spartan Air Services [6]

Mexico

Coculum Aeronautica SA de CV

Switzerland

Swissair briefly operated a single interned reconnaissance Mosquito in 1944, but the aircraft was handed back to the Swiss Air Force, who used it as a test bed in 1945. [7]

Turkey

General Command of Mapping (Turkey)

United Kingdom

BOAC

See also

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Thetford 1991, p. 99.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Thetford 1991, p. 100.
  3. 1 2 3 Thetford 1991, p. 102.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Thetford 1991, p. 422.
  5. Freeman 1973, pp. 202–207.
  6. Jackson 1973, p.160-163
  7. Sharp and Bowyer 1995, p.126.

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