List of de Havilland Mosquito operators

The following are operators of the de Havilland Mosquito:

Military operators

Australia

Royal Australian Air Force

• No. 1 Squadron RAAF
• No. 87 Squadron RAAF
• No. 94 Squadron RAAF
• No. 456 Squadron RAAF
• No. 464 Squadron RAAF
• No. 1 Photo Reconnaissance Unit RAAF
• No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF

Belgium

Belgian Air Force 11 Squadron, 1 Wing

Canada

Royal Canadian Air Force

• No. 400 Squadron RCAF
• No. 404 Squadron RCAF
• No. 406 Squadron RCAF
• No. 409 Squadron RCAF
• No. 410 Squadron RCAF
• No. 418 Squadron RCAF

China

Republic of China Air Force

• 1st BG RoCAF flew 200 Canadian built Mosquitos 1948–1949

People's Republic of China

People's Liberation Army Air Force

• Five ex-Nationalist Mosquitos operated by PLAAF in all version.
• Took part in the flight demonstration of the foundation celebration of People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Air Force

Dominican Republic

Dominican Air Force

Dominican AF De Havilland Mosquito FB.6

France

French Air Force

Haiti

Haitian Air Force

Israel

Israeli Air Force

New Zealand

Royal New Zealand Air Force

• 14 Squadron (replacing Vought Corsairs 1948–1952)
• 75 Squadron (replacing Avro Lincolns 1945–1951)
• 487 Squadron (replacing Lockheed Venturas 1943–1945)
• 488 Squadron (replacing Bristol Beaufighters 1943–1945)
• 489 Squadron (replacing Bristol Beaufighters 1945)

Norway

Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service

Royal Norwegian Air Force

• 333 Squadron
• 334 Squadron

Poland

De Havilland Mosquito NF.XIX of the Royal Swedish Air Force in October 1949.

De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB.VI NS930 of the Turkish Air Force at Manchester (Ringway) Airport in 1947

Polish Air Forces on exile in Great Britain

• No. 305 Polish Bomber Squadron, "Ziemi Wielkopolskiej im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego"
• No. 307 Polish Night Fighter Squadron, "Lwowskich Puchaczy"

South Africa

South African Air Force

• No 60 Squadron (PR) SAAF, (North Africa, San Severo (Italy), Bloemfontein (South Africa): February 1943 – June 1947)

Soviet Union

Soviet Air Force

Sweden

Royal Swedish Air Force

• Västmanland Wing (F 1)

Switzerland

Swiss Air Force

Turkey

Turkish Air Force

United Kingdom

Royal Air Force

• No. 4 Squadron RAF
• No. 8 Squadron RAF
• No. 11 Squadron RAF
• No. 13 Squadron RAF
• No. 14 Squadron RAF
• No. 16 Squadron RAF
• No. 18 Squadron RAF
• No. 21 Squadron RAF
• No. 22 Squadron RAF
• No. 23 Squadron RAF
• No. 25 Squadron RAF
• No. 27 Squadron RAF
• No. 29 Squadron RAF
• No. 36 Squadron RAF
• No. 39 Squadron RAF
• No. 45 Squadron RAF
• No. 46 Squadron RAF
• No. 47 Squadron RAF
• No. 55 Squadron RAF
• No. 58 Squadron RAF
• No. 68 Squadron RAF
• No. 69 Squadron RAF
• No. 81 Squadron RAF
• No. 82 Squadron RAF
• No. 84 Squadron RAF
• No. 85 Squadron RAF
• No. 89 Squadron RAF
• No. 96 Squadron RAF
• No. 98 Squadron RAF
• No. 105 Squadron RAF
• No. 107 Squadron RAF
• No. 108 Squadron RAF
• No. 109 Squadron RAF
• No. 110 Squadron RAF
• No. 114 Squadron RAF
• No. 125 Squadron RAF
• No. 128 Squadron RAF
• No. 139 Squadron RAF
• No. 140 Squadron RAF
• No. 141 Squadron RAF
• No. 142 Squadron RAF
• No. 143 Squadron RAF
• No. 151 Squadron RAF
• No. 157 Squadron RAF
• No. 162 Squadron RAF
• No. 163 Squadron RAF
• No. 169 Squadron RAF
• No. 176 Squadron RAF
• No. 180 Squadron RAF
• No. 192 Squadron RAF
• No. 199 Squadron RAF
• No. 211 Squadron RAF
• No. 219 Squadron RAF
• No. 235 Squadron RAF
• No. 239 Squadron RAF
• No. 248 Squadron RAF
• No. 249 Squadron RAF
• No. 254 Squadron RAF
• No. 255 Squadron RAF
• No. 256 Squadron RAF
• No. 264 Squadron RAF
• No. 268 Squadron RAF
• No. 333 Squadron RAF
• No. 334 Squadron RAF
• No. 500 Squadron RAF
• No. 502 Squadron RAF
• No. 504 Squadron RAF
• No. 515 Squadron RAF
• No. 521 Squadron RAF
• No. 527 Squadron RAF
• No. 540 Squadron RAF
• No. 544 Squadron RAF
• No. 571 Squadron RAF
• No. 600 Squadron RAF
• No. 604 Squadron RAF
• No. 605 Squadron RAF
• No. 608 Squadron RAF
• No. 609 Squadron RAF
• No. 613 Squadron RAF
• No. 614 Squadron RAF
• No. 616 Squadron RAF
• No. 617 Squadron RAF
• No. 618 Squadron RAF
• No. 627 Squadron RAF
• No. 680 Squadron RAF
• No. 681 Squadron RAF
• No. 683 Squadron RAF
• No. 684 Squadron RAF
• No. 692 Squadron RAF

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm

• 703 Naval Air Squadron VI,[1] T.R.33,[2] T.T.39, T.R.37[3]
• 704 Naval Air Squadron VI, T.3,[1] B.25[4]
• 728 Naval Air Squadron T.3,[1] T.T.39,[3] B.25
• 733 Naval Air Squadron B.25[4]
• 739 Naval Air Squadron T.R.33[2]
• 751 Naval Air Squadron VI,[1] T.R.33[2]
• 762 Naval Air Squadron VI, T.3,[1] T.R.33, [2] B.25[4]
• 770 Naval Air Squadron B.25[4]
• 771 Naval Air Squadron T.R.33,[2] T.T.39, T.R37,[3] B.25[4]
• 772 Naval Air Squadron B.25[4]
• 773 Naval Air Squadron VI[1]
• 777 Naval Air Squadron B.25[4]
• 778 Naval Air Squadron VI,[1] T.R.33,[2] B.25[4]
• 780 Naval Air Squadron VI, T.3[1]
• 787 Naval Air Squadron VI[1]
• 790 Naval Air Squadron VI,[1] T.R.33,[2] B.25[4]
• 797 Naval Air Squadron B.25[4]
• 811 Naval Air Squadron VI, T.3[1]

United States

De Havilland of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bombardment Group, at RAF Watton England.

United States Army Air Forces[5]

• • 416th Night Fighter Squadron
  • 425th Night Fighter Squadron
• 25th Bombardment Group
  • 653rd Bomb Squadron
  • 654th Bomb Squadron
• 492nd Bombardment Group
• 802nd Reconnaissance Group
  • 8th Reconnaissance Squadron Special
  • 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

Venezuela

Venezuelan Air Force

Yugoslavia

SFR Yugoslav Air Force

• 103rd Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (1951–1956)
• 88th Bomber Aviation Regiment (1952–1957)
• 16th Reconnaissance Squadron of Anti-Aircraft Artillery (1958–1962)

Civil operators

Canada

De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B.35 CF-HML of Spartan Air Services, Ottawa, Ontario.

Spartan Air Services[6]

Mexico

Coculum Aeronautica SA de CV

Switzerland

Swissair briefly operated a single interned reconnaissance Mosquito in 1944, but the aircraft was handed back to the Swiss Air Force, who used it as a test bed in 1945.[7]

Turkey

General Command of Mapping (Turkey)

United Kingdom

BOAC

• Fleet Requirements Unit, civilian operated unit, run by Airwork Ltd for the Fleet Air Arm

See also

• De Havilland Mosquito

References

Notes

1. Thetford 1991, p. 99.
2. Thetford 1991, p. 100.
3. Thetford 1991, p. 102.
4. Thetford 1991, p. 422.
5. Freeman 1973, pp. 202–207.
6. Jackson 1973, p.160-163
7. Sharp and Bowyer 1995, p.126.

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