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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:A17-587 RAAF
    Construction Number:DHA1022
    Last Civil Registration:VH-BIT
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn A17-5...
    Latest Owner or Location:by CASA

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A17-587.

    8 July 1947

    To Wallan Resources Pty Ltd, Wallan, VIC with new c/r VH-BIT.

    8 July 1947

    Operated by Wallan Aviation Pty Ltd.

    May 1967


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: On a road trip to a NSW airshow in May 1967, we went to the owner of VH-BITs street address in the town of Yarrawonga Vic to ask where he kept the aircraft - only to find it parked at his house!

    Circa 1983


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Mangalore

    13 February 2001

    To George Young, Wallan, VIC keeping c/r VH-BIT.

    1 June 2006

    To Wallan Resources Pty Ltd, South Melbourne, VIC keeping c/r VH-BIT.

    1 June 2006

    Operated by Wallan Aviation Pty Ltd.

    By 29 June 2023

    To by CASA with new c/r VH-BIT.

    29 June 2023

    Civil registration, VH-BIT, cancelled.
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