Damaged in a taxiing accident at Bassingbourn in April 1945. Photo from: Jim Bradley (son of photographer)

400 Mosquito B25 bombers were built in Canada using Packard Merlin engines. KB669 was struck off charge in 1947. It had been delivered too late to see action in World War II. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Converted at Leconfield from a B Mark III which had served with No. 10 Squadron. NA195 was later passed to No. 45 Maintenance Unit at Kinloss. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Operated by the Navigator Radar Conversion Flight, No. 51 Operational Training Unit, at Cranfield, Surrey. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

At the A&AEE for fitting of an oblique camera, Delivered to 613 Sqn, Ailerons jammed, belly landed and hit an obstruction at Ringway on August 22, 1948. Written off. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Ex US Navy 90026. Operated out of Dorval, Quebec, by 231 Sqn on transatlantic services. Returned to the USN in April 1946. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The Fleetwings (officially Kaiser-Fleetwings by now) Model 44 was a dive bomber designed for the US Navy to replace the Curtiss Helldiver. Here the prototype is returning from an early (possibly first) test flight which took place on 12 April 1945 piloted by William H. Engle. It is landing on one of the new paved runways at Fleetwings Field which the USN had built in support of the BTK-1 project. The engine was a P&W R-2800-22W giving 2400 hp and a novel design feature was an exhaust pump engine cooling system. This proved unsatisfactory and was eventually replaced with conventional cowl flaps. Collection holder William Engle is the son of Fleetwings test pilot William H. Engle.

Spraying DDT to control mosquitoes in Manila. Scrapped at Manila after World War II. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Aircraft captured by the US Army. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland