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

 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

South African Air Force

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

• 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

• F 1 Hässlö

  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
• 726 Naval Air Squadron
• 728 Naval Air Squadron
• 733 Naval Air Squadron
• 751 Naval Air Squadron
• 762 Naval Air Squadron
• 770 Naval Air Squadron
• 771 Naval Air Squadron
• 772 Naval Air Squadron
• 777 Naval Air Squadron
• 778 Naval Air Squadron
• 780 Naval Air Squadron
• 790 Naval Air Squadron
• 811 Naval Air Squadron

 United States

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

United States Army Air Forces^[1]

• • 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

 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^[2]

 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.^[3]

 Turkey

• General Command of Mapping (Turkey)

 United Kingdom

BOAC

References

Notes

1. Freeman 1973, pp. 202-207.
2. Jackson 1973, p.160-163
3. Sharp and Bowyer 1995, p.126.

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