In 1956/7 there used to be three Mosquitos parked at Thruxton facing the
A303 main road which ran alongside the airfield. The story was that they'd been illegally sold to Israel by an ex-WD surplus dealer/scrap man and were intercepted en-route and forced to land at the nearest airfield. I used to drive past them regularly and watched them slowly deteriorate from the fully airworthy aircraft that landed there to wrecks that were ignominiously dragged away a couple of years later and burnt. Very sad. I often wondered who the pilots were and what happened to them ?