Mosquito wins at Oshkosh

摘要

The Experimental Aircraft Association's top warbird award at its AirVenture show at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, went for the first time ever to a non-American design restored by a non-American restoration shop when the Grand Champion WW2 trophy was awarded on 16 July to Jerry Yagen's Mosquito FB26 KA114. The aircraft was flown from its base with the Military Aviation Museum at Virginia Beach, Virginia for its Oshkosh debut. The restoration team from Avspecs Ltd, who restored KA114 at Ardmore, New Zealand, picked up the Golden Wrench award for their amazing work, which in September 2012 culminated in the first flight of a Mosquito for 16 years.