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PF659 Dehavilland Mosquito PR.34 question - photo attached


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http://avions-de-la-guerre-d-algerie.over-blog.com/article-134-de-havilland-mosquito-francais-118367942.html 

 

About halfway down this link is a side view of postwar PF659 identified as a PR.34 of the RAF. Would anyone care to comment on the unit, location and color scheme?  It may be overall aluminum but I am not sure. Thank you very much. 

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The few bits of info. I can find indicates she was with 81 Squadron in the Far East.   I think that's overalll silver or aluminum paint although the lower part of the engine nacelle is intriguing.  Is that just shadow?

 

David

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Don't trust ANY of the captions on that page as most are blatantly wrong!  TT.35s listed as PR16s for Cliff's sake...

 

Some nice photos there, none of which I've seen before, especially the last one of a Sea Mosquito TR33.  Looks to be one of the early ones with the De Havilland u/c.  Thanks for that.

 

PF659  Built by Percival at Luton between 6/9/45 - 26/7/46. Probably shadow - the photo quality is too poor to tell much and most of their aircraft were in overall Aluminium dope.

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