Originally Posted by PPRuNe Pop
The owner of the 3 Mossie's was John Crewdson who had 'appeared' in a few films. He told me one day, on a visit to Biggin Hill with the three Mossies, that he wasn't in for the money, just the pleasure!
John Crewsdon certainley didn't own 3 of the Mosquitoes used in Mosquito Squadron.
The 4 used for the flying sequences were:-
T.3 RR299 owned at the time by BAC/BAe and flown by Pat Fillingham
B.35 TA634 owned at the time by the Corporation of Liverpool
B.35 RS709 owned at the time by Peter Thomas (Skyframe Collection)
B.35 RS712 owned at the time by Grp.Capt. Hamish Mahaddie
Famous shot of the late John Crewsdon piloting one of the B-17's at not-a-lot-above the Bovingdon aprons during filming of the The War Lover in 1962.
Originally Posted by PPRuNe Pop
Sadly he was killed in Jet Ranger crash over The Wash.
I think you'll find it was an Alouette, in fact the same one that was used as a helo camera platform in the filming of the Battle of Britain IIRC.