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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:NZ899 RNZAF
    Construction Number:82901
    Last Civil Registration:G-ALIW
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn NZ899...
    Latest Owner or Location:Francis Russell Curry, 6 Orchard Mews, Saint. Helier, Jersey

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    Dates

    Event

    1938

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Circa 1938

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n R5006.

    Circa 1940

    Transported by ship.
    Built at Hatfield and assembled in NZ. Shipped to New Zealand on SS Rangitane.

    By 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ899.

    20 June 1949

    To Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club, Taieri, NZ with new c/r ZK-ATI.

    23 February 1950

    To Air Contracts Ltd, Masterton keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    19 July 1956

    To W. Bower and Co Ltd, Palmerston North keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    By 1958

    To B. McKay, Eketahuna keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    1959

    To A. Kane, Waiouru keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    1961

    To Wellington and Wairarapa Gliding Club keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    21 June 1967

    To R. Ellwood, Trentham keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    1968

    To P. Shand keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    14 February 1968

    Damaged.
    Crashed in Landsborough Valley, South Westland on 14 February 1968 and badly damaged.

    19 August 1968

    To B. Drake and J. Muir, Cromwell keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    2 December 1968

    First post-restoration Flight.

    14 January 1971

    To K. Simich, Auckland keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    1974


    Photographer: Dave Welch Collection
    Notes: At Masterton, New Zealand

    26 March 1974

    To A. Fahey and J. Sager, Auckland keeping c/r ZK-ATI.

    26 May 1976

    To Walter K. Buch, Cupertino, CA with new c/r N27WB.

    12 August 1981

    Civil registration, N27WB, cancelled.
    Exported to England.

    From 17 August 1981 to 17 August 1981

    To Francis Russell Curry with new c/r G-ALIW.

    4 January 2006

    To Francis Russell Curry, 6 Orchard Mews, Saint. Helier, Jersey keeping c/r G-ALIW.

    30 August 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2013 Light Aircraft Association Rally at Sywell in the UK

    30 July 2017


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: At the Moth Fly-In at Old Warden
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