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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:T5528 RAAF
    Construction Number:83247
    Last Civil Registration:VH-SDR
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn T5528...
    Latest Owner or Location:State Wide Interiors Pty. Ltd, Glebe, NSW

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Circa 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n T5528.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n T5528.

    From 23 October 1950 to 6 December 1950

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-AKN {1}.

    6 December 1950

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-PCA.

    20 August 1954

    Crashed.
    Near Bombala, NSW.

    13 September 1954

    Civil registration, VH-PCA, cancelled.

    8 August 1990

    To State Wide Interiors Pty. Ltd, Glebe, NSW with new c/r VH-SDR.

    8 August 1990

    Assigned civil registration: VH-SDR (DH-82A, 83247)

    Circa October 1990


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Horsham Airport, Victoria

    1994

    Restoration started.

    9 February 2006

    To State Wide Interiors Pty. Ltd, Glebe, NSW with new c/r VH-SDR.

    Operated by Curtis Aviation (N. S. W.) Pty Limited.

    10 June 2008

    To State Wide Interiors Pty. Ltd, Glebe, NSW keeping c/r VH-SDR.

    24 June 2008

    Involved in an incident.
    At Hoxton Park, Sydney, New South Wales -operated by Curtis Aviation -Engine failure in cruise and subsequent forced landing at the former Olympin Equestrian site, touched down on soft ground and flipped over. - substantial damage.

    4 October 2014


    Photographer: Graeme Mills
    Notes: At Luskintyre, NSW
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