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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:A17-527 RAAF
    Construction Number:DHA0950
    Last Civil Registration:VH-BFD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Australia Tiger Moth I...
    Latest Owner or Location:Stephen William Gist, Kangaroo Ground, VIC

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland Australia.
    Built by De Havilland Pty Ltd at Mascot in New South Wales.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A17-527.

    2 November 1954

    To Townsville Aero Club, with new c/r VH-BFD.

    August 1974


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: VH-BFD in August 1974 on Cec Hechts sugar cane farm at Bambaroo, north of Townsville Qld

    16 June 2004

    To Jonothan Corbett, Hampton, VIC keeping c/r VH-BFD.

    23 June 2006

    To Jonothan Corbett, Melbourne, VIC keeping c/r VH-BFD.

    16 June 2008

    To Stephen Gist, Kangaroo Ground, VIC keeping c/r VH-BFD.

    19 October 2009

    To Stephen Gist, Kangaroo Ground, VIC keeping c/r VH-BFD.

    29 October 2009

    To Stephen William Gist, Kangaroo Ground, VIC keeping c/r VH-BFD.

    4 October 2014


    Photographer: Graeme Mills
    Notes: At Luskintyre, New South Wales
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