Dates

Event

Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland Australia at Australia.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A17-339.

17 January 1946

To Aero Club of Western Australia with new c/r VH-AMP.

1953

To Bob Couper Co, Cunderdin keeping c/r VH-AMP.
Converted for agricultural use.

1969

Fitted with the fin and rudder of VH-WFQ.

January 1969

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: The farm shed behind held over a dozen dismantled cropdusting Tiger Moths, cleared from a hangar at Cunderdin Airport after resident agricultural firm Bob Couper Co ceased operations. The DH.83 was removed with the Tigers. This DH.82 (left) has the tailof VH-WFQ but is in fact VH-AMP and was being patched up prior to going on display at a Cunderdin folk museum

January 1974

To Cunderin Municipal Museum, Cunderdin, Western Australia.
View the Location Dossier

Markings Applied: VH-WLQ
Was meant to commemorate the many RAAF Tiger Moths which had trained pilots at the local EFTS during the war, and was painted up in RAAF trainer yellow. Unfortunately the locals who did the job left part of the agricultural spraying gear under the fuselage and, for reasons unknown, decided it should have a civil registration painted on, rather than its real RAAF serial (A17-339). Since it had been fitted with the fin of one of Bob Coupers other Tigers (VH-WFQ), they chose this for a civil registration. However, to compound the felony, even this fact got lost in the translation and the poor old thing was was painted as VH-WLQ, a registration which was never used on a Tiger Moth. The identity of this displayed aircraft has caused consternation to plane spotting enthusiasts ever since!.

September 2015

Photographer: Arthur Scarf
Notes: At the Cunderdin Municipal Museum in Western Australia

September 2015

Photographer: Arthur Scarf
Notes: At the Cunderdin Municipal Museum in Western Australia