Mosquito Plans Recovery

[Hood]

It looks like a complete set of DH Mosquito plans have been recovered from Airbus's site at Broughton which cover every variant built and modification too and perhaps some that didn't enter production given Bill Ramsey's quote "You could actually build any form of Mosquito, including one that never actually flew."
Luckily they have been recovered by the People's Mosquito Project, it seems Airbus would have dumped them if nobody claimed them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-40873628

 

[Schneiderman]

According to a posting by a well-informed DH specialist on the Keypublishing forum these are not originals and there existance was well known.

"These are the drawings used in the operation of RR299. The master set is with de Havilland Aviation at Duxford, as are all the other surviving dh drawings."

edit....RR299 was the aircraft lost in the fatal crash during an air display in 1996

 

[Hood]

Thanks, as ever there is always more to a story than the headline (as I suspected).

 

[BillRo]

I think the "drawings" were a set of microfiche copies.