List of de Havilland Mosquito operators

The following are operators of the de Havilland Mosquito:

Military operators

 Australia

Royal Australian Air Force

 Belgium

Belgian Air Force 11 Squadron, 1 Wing

 Canada

Royal Canadian Air Force
  • No. 400 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 404 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 406 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 409 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 410 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 418 Squadron RCAF

 China

Republic of China Air Force
  • 1st BG RoCAF flew 200 Canadian built Mosquitos 1948–1949

 People's Republic of China

People's Liberation Army Air Force
  • Five ex-Nationalist Mosquitos operated by PLAAF in all version.
  • Took part in the flight demonstration of the foundation celebration of People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.

 Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Air Force

 Dominican Republic

Dominican Air Force
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.
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
  • No 60 Squadron (PR) SAAF, (North Africa, San Severo Italy, Bloemfontein South Africa: February 1943 – June 1947)

 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.
United States Army Air Forces[1]
    • 416th Night Fighter Squadron
    • 425th Night Fighter Squadron
  • 25th Bombardment Group
  • 492nd Bombardment Group
  • 802nd Reconnaissance Group
    • 8th Reconnaissance Squadron Special
    • 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

 Yugoslavia

SFR Yugoslav Air Force

Civil operators

 Canada

De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B.35 CF-HML of Spartan Air Services, Ottawa, Ontario.
Spartan Air Services[2]

 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.[3]

 Turkey

General Command of Mapping (Turkey)

 United Kingdom

BOAC

See also

References

Notes

  1. Freeman 1973, pp. 202–207.
  2. Jackson 1973, p.160-163
  3. Sharp and Bowyer 1995, p.126.

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