633 Squadron - the answer...

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...as to how criminal it was...

TT35, RS718 - Staged undercarriage collapse. Later torched in filming...

TT35, RS715 - Used for cockpit shots and hacked up where necessary to allow filming. Wings used as crash fodder in other scenes...

TT35, TJ118 - As RS715, but cockpit survives at DH Heritage Centre at London Colney...

TT35, TA734 - Taxied into fuel bowser at speed for film scene. Crashed and torched in one go!

TT35, TA642 - Genuine undercarriage collapse during filming. Could have been RS718s saviour if it'd happened earlier in production and been filmed!

Amazingly 6 other Mossies survived!

In "Mosquito Sqn", no Mossie's were harmed during filming. Amazing!

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As I mentioned in another thread, they were probably due for the scrapyard anyway. Wonder what happened to the ones that survived.

In "Mosquito Sqn", no Mossie's were harmed during filming. Amazing!

They probably used footage from 633 Squadron.

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As I mentioned in another thread, they were probably due for the scrapyard anyway. Wonder what happened to the ones that survived.

I can account for at least 3. RR299 was the BAe example lost nearly 9 years ago on 21st July 1996 at Barton.

Another is the TT35 at Duxford (via Skyfame at Staverton then Duxford), and I assume the TT35 on display at the DH Heritage Centre is also a survivor of the film.

RS712 survived via Strathallan and was airworthy alongside RR299 until bought in the mid 80s by Kermit Weeks, upon which it was exported to the US, and is now in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh.