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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:A17-316 RAAF
    Construction Number:DHA0335
    Last Civil Registration:VH-FAG
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Australia Tiger Moth I...
    Latest Owner or Location:David Mark Crowe, Sanctuary Cove, QLD

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland Australia.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A17-316.

    24 July 1947

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-BED.

    1950


    Photographer: Fred Lindsley
    Notes: At Woolongong, New South Wales

    9 October 1952

    To Illawarra Flying School with new c/r VH-FAG.

    6 August 1963

    Withdrawn from use.
    At Ballarat.

    February 1965


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: By 1965 retired agricultural Tiger Moths were parked out at many airfields. They had little resale value back then, prior to the boomin the popular vintage and antique aircraft movement. Here Aerial Cropdusters and Sprayers Ltd of Melbournes VH-FAG sits in the weather at Ballarat Vic in February 1965

    7 October 1983

    To Kenneth Gordon Scott, Bongaree, QLD keeping c/r VH-FAG.

    26 April 1991


    Photographer: David Tanner
    Notes: At Temora, New South Wales

    8 December 2005

    To Kenneth Scott, Bongaree, QLD with new c/r VH-FAG.

    30 October 2015

    To David Mark Crowe, Sanctuary Cove, QLD keeping c/r VH-FAG.

    6 January 2018


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome, New South Wales, Australia

    20 February 2021


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth VH-FAG taxiing at the Airsport Qld breakfast fly-in.Boonah Airfield, Boonah, Queensland, Australia.Sony A7RIV + Sony FE 70-200mm F41/160sec | f/11 | ISO 100 | 205 mm (effective FL)


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