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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-60 Moth
    Latest Model:DH-60GMW Gipsy Moth
    Construction Number:0118
    Last Civil Registration:N917M
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-60GMW cn 0118 cr N9...
    Latest Owner or Location:Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a DH-60GM by Moth Aircraft Corp. at USA.

    14 January 1930

    To Moth Aircraft Corporation, Lowell with new c/r NC917M.

    16 January 1930

    To D. C. Warren, Oakland, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    29 September 1930

    To Cardiff and Peacock Aero Corp Ltd, Bakersfield, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    26 August 1934

    To Lloyd A Larson and A James Dewey JNR, Temple City, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    1935

    Converted to a DH-60GMW.

    14 August 1937

    To Harry M Campbell, Wilmar, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    14 November 1938

    To Paul Blackman, Jack Saffren and Harry David Seitz, Los Angeles keeping c/r NC917M.

    24 October 1939

    To Paramount Pictures Inc, Hollywood, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    23 April 1941

    To United Air Service Ltd, Paul Mantz Air Service and Paul Mantz, Burban, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    1962

    To Tallmantz Aviation Inc keeping c/r NC917M.

    1963

    To Elmer Novak/Rosen-Novak Auto Co, Omaha, NE T keeping c/r NC917M.

    9 February 1967

    To James S Appleby, Newport Beach, CA keeping c/r NC917M.

    28 October 1969

    To Henry L. Wheeler, San Diego, CA with new c/r N917M.

    1986

    Mr. Wheeler died and the aircraft passed to San Diego Aerospace Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego.

    2004

    Restored.
    At Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.

    2005

    Placed on display with Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    22 June 2011

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA keeping c/r N917M.

    7 March 2012


    Photographer: John Wolsafson

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in Hall 1 of Yanks Air Museum at Chino, California

    18 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, CA, USA.

    10 November 2020

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA keeping c/r N917M.
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