This Mossie, true serial RS709, has been restored to a Mk. XVI configuration and painted c1988 as a weather recce aircraft of the USAAF's 653rd BS based at RAF Watton in 1944-1945. It is a British-built B.Mk.35 manufactured in 1946, converted for towing targets by 1959 for 3 Civil Anti-Aircraft Cooperation Unit, Exeter. In 1963 it was registered G-ASKA to fly in the filming of 633 Squadron. At the end of 1971 it was ferried to Harlingen, TX as N9797 and back to the UK (Blackbushe) in November 1979. Restored as G-MOSI in RAF camo, it ferried to the USAFM Oct 1984/Feb 1985

Painted as a USAAF aircraft, this Mosquito was originally RS709 with the RAF from 1946 to 1963. In civilian life it became successively G-ASKA, N9797 and G-MOSI before joining the NMUSAF in 1984.

This Mosquito is in reality RS709, a B.Mk. 35, but has been restored to a USAAF Mk. XVI configuration and given the fake aerial NS519, a weather reconnaissance aircraft of the 653rd BS based in England in 1944-1945. This Mosquito was also formerly G-ASKA, N9797 and G-MOSI.