Yep, I do remember seeing 4 Mossies and a Mitchell camera ship flying over Hemel Hempstead when they filmed Mosquito Sqdn. One of the times I went up there as a cadet I saw a Mossie parked by the tower in a sort of yellow ochre primer colour scheme. I took a snap of it with my box brownie camera but didnt get the number in the photo. There was also a Mossie in a hangar at one time..... camouflaged one.
When I was on the gliding school (617 GS, ex-Hendon, later moved to Manston) the Battle of Britain film aircraft were hangared there prior to diposal.
These included 2 CASA 111s, ME109s (well the Hispano Buchons actually), 2 seat Spit G-AVAV, a Proctor converted to look like a Stuka (affectionately known as a Proktuka) & various other bits n pieces.
Great fun for a young cadet to explore all this (the gliders were kept in the same hangar). When 617GS moved to Manston I transferred to 613GS at RAF Halton. They had lots of interesting old airframes too. At the time I went there they had 3 very old Vulcans, at least one I think with the straight leading edge delta (which would have made it one of the prototypes).
Happy Days. Even learnt to drive on those airfields before I was let lose on the public highways... mind you, I've paid back for it in income tax ever since!
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