A chat to a man who worked the RAAF Mosquito produced the information that as it was the last one of that model and had actual combat history it had been deemed too historically valuable to fly. The restoration is to an airworthy standard but it will remain on static display.
From the RAAF Museum website: 'The restoration of the RAAF Museum's de Havilland Mosquito
PR Mk XVI, A52-600, is now underway. The aircraft is the only surviving RAAF-operated Mosquito with a wartime operational history, and the only
PR Mk XVI left anywhere in the world.'