Quite a few years ago now, I was lucky enough to have a well-connected friend at Ardmore. We wandered down to Avspecs to have a look at KA114, the first Mosquito they had rebuilt.
My friend John said to one of the engineers that he knew:
"Can we have a look?"
"Sure hop in."
That's how I got to sit in the cockpit of an airworthy Mosquito. Unfortunately I never got to see it fly.
Here's my well connected friend, John.
One of my treasured photos. A very poor quality picture but those are my knees!
It's interesting that the bomber variants have control wheels, but the fighter variants have sticks.
I thoroughly recommend these videos where Warren Denholme from Avspecs describes how it is built and Keith Skilling, one of the test pilots, is explaining what it is like to fly a Mosquito, after they both flew to Tauranga from Ardmore:
Mosquito Rescue:
Flying the Mozzie: