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Old 6th Oct 2013, 19:32
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GQ2
 
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Nada.

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'pulling it all apart, sanding back to bare wood and putting it back together with epoxy.
Then the CAA will not let you fly it as it has not been rebuilt from original materials.
A Mosquito, for example.'

You can't compare a Mosquito to the likes a a Maggie or a Proctor for example. To pull a Mosquito apart you'd effectively have to totally destroy it. This was the issue that BAe had with RR299. A new wooden airframe with original metalwork etc gets around this, as in the case of the recent and current Kiwi rebuilds.
There are a number of the simpler machines such as Proctors which have been (And are being...) taken-apart and re-glued - and are happily and legally flying in the UK.
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