Originally Posted by
chevvron
After 633, one Mosquito remained at Bovingdon for several years, only flying out (after a hole had been drained in the tailplane to drain out the water) in late 1967; it remained in the first hangar on the left parked along with our gliders (we did several detachments at Bovingdon from Halton during this period) and on one occasion we all climbed in it.
I suspect this was RS712, now owned by Kermit Weeks. After filming for 633 Squadron finished, this was bought from off of Mirisch Films by Grp.Capt H.A.Mahaddie, and it spent some time at Bovvy before being stored at Henlow and then West Malling. It was one of the airworthy Mossie's used in Mosquito Squadron back at Bovvy in 1968, and during this time it was used by Mahaddie so he could fly between filming sets on Battle of Britain which he was involved in sourcing the aircraft for. It was bought by the Strathallen Collection in 1972, where it stayed until sold off in the early 80's when bought by Weeks.