For a brief period in the 1950s, de Havilland Mosquito B35s were a part of the diverse fleet Spartan Aerial Services Ltd used to take aerial photographs in order to map the far north of Canada for the first time. The Spartan Mosquitos were configured very differently to service aircraft, as they were set up with a crew of three. The pilot and navigator occupied the normal positions, with a third crew member, the camera operator, working inside the rear fuselage. The bomb bay had a single Wild RC-5 (later RC-5a and RC-8) camera mounted aft. An additional range-extending fuel tank was fitted as well. The camera operator entered through the rear fuselage's modified access hatch, with an emergency access hatch on the port side, and a set of portholes in the wooden fuselage to provide limited illumination.
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