Corgi AA32814 De Havilland Mosquito PR.I Royal Air Force W4051/LY-U No1 PRU, RAF Benson, July 1941

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The first production examples of the Mosquito were photo-reconnaissance machines. The prototype for the "Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Mark I (PR.I)", with the tail code "W4051", performed its first flight on 10 June 1941. The PR.I looked very much like a Mosquito bomber variant, as it retained the glass nose for camera targeting and the bomb bay doors, but it included five camera ports. There was a port for an F24 oblique camera behind and below the wing, and twin ports for an F52 stereo camera pair behind the bombbay doors. There was a port in the front of each bomb-bay doors, with the bomb-bay accommodating either an F24 stereo camera pair or a single K17 camera.