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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth I
    Last Military Serial:NM206 RAF
    Construction Number:86514
    Last Civil Registration:N206DH
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth I sn NM206...
    Latest Owner or Location:Straight Arrow Llc, Chicago, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth I.

    3 August 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n NM206.
    Subject to dispute, Polish Air Museum in Krakow claims that their Tiger Moth is NM206?.

    3 August 1944

    Assigned to No. 15 Maintenance Unit, RAF Wroughton for storage.

    26 September 1945

    Transferred to No. 38 MU, RAF Llandow, Wales.

    23 March 1946

    Transferred to RAF Pershore, Worcestershire.

    From 30 March 1946 to 31 March 1946

    Ferry flight.
    To Romorantin, France.

    31 March 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air.

    6 April 1951

    To French Air Force with new c/r F-BGCQ.
    Inspected for sale.

    25 April 1951

    To Union Aeronautique du Centre, Bourges keeping c/r F-BGCQ.

    1968

    To Aero Club dIssoudun, Issoudun keeping c/r F-BGCQ.

    1971

    To C Honcoop/Honcoops Handelsonderneming, Veen, Netherlands.

    4 February 1971

    To Geert E. Frank, East Kingston, NH.

    19 July 1971

    Civil registration, F-BGCQ, cancelled.

    15 September 1971

    Assigned civil registration: N4977

    22 October 1971

    To Avery R Johnson, Milford, NH.

    10 March 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4977 (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, NM.206) issued.

    26 April 1972

    Assigned civil registration: N4977

    25 April 1973

    To Geert E. Frank, East Kingston, NH keeping c/r N4977.
    Aircraft overhauled.

    30 July 1973

    To Bette Jeanne Bach, Glen Arbor, MI keeping c/r N4977.
    Later Newburyport, MA then Waitsfield, VT.

    20 September 1973

    To Bette Jeanne Bach, Waitsfield, VT with new c/r N206DH.

    16 September 1978

    To Bette Bach Fineman, Waitsfield, VT keeping c/r N206DH.

    8 October 1981

    To Walter A. Kessler, Marengo, IL.

    5 February 1982

    Assigned civil registration: N206DH

    1982


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway Airport

    Based at Ferris Field (62IL), Marengo, IL.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 23

    6 August 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    14 February 2005

    To Walter A. Kessler Trustee, Hampshire, IL keeping c/r N206DH.

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for N206DH (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, NM.206) issued.

    28 August 2016


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Poplar Grove Airport

    19 June 2017


    Photographer: Daniel Landbo
    Notes: Taken at Galt Airport, Illinois

    19 June 2017


    Photographer: Daniel Landbo
    Notes: Galt Airport, Illinois

    19 June 2017


    Photographer: Daniel Landbo

    1 August 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r N206DH.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Chicago, IL.

    29 November 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r N206DH.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Chicago, IL.

    22 February 2019

    To Straight Arrow Llc, Chicago, IL keeping c/r N206DH.

    4 June 2022

    Civil registration, N206DH, cancelled.


    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Air Britain
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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