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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:A17-640 RAAF
    Construction Number:DHA0870
    Last Civil Registration:VH-NMD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Australia Tiger Moth I...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gregory Hardy, Fannie Bay, NT

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland Australia.
    DH-82A A17-640

    Circa 1942

    Was allocated s/n DX838 with the South African Air Force but was not taken up.

    20 August 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A17-640.

    31 January 1956

    To Royal Aero Club of NSW, Bankstown with new c/r VH-RSB.

    From 7 March 1959 to 1 January 1964

    To Henry AH Watts, Victoria Park, WA/Rural Aviation with new c/r VH-BTT.

    22 March 1962

    Involved in an incident.
    Badly damaged when failed to take-Off near Northam, WA.

    4 March 1963


    Photographer: Mike Madden
    Notes: VH-BTT at Maylands on 4 March 1963 with spray bars and Rural Aviation painted on the fuselage

    1965

    Withdrawn from use.

    December 1969


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Stored in a farm shed, near Trayning WA in December 1969.

    By 1989

    To Lynton Forster, Jandakot, WA.
    For Rebuild.

    30 October 1996

    To John Markham, Jandakot with new c/r VH-NMD.

    1998

    Restored.
    By Lynton Forster, test flown at Brooklands.

    19 March 1998

    To Walter Julian, Dalkeith, WA keeping c/r VH-NMD.

    1 March 2006

    To Stephen Edwards, West Perth, WA keeping c/r VH-NMD.

    22 May 2009

    To Gregory Hardy, Fannie Bay, NT keeping c/r VH-NMD.
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