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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:DF137 RAF
    Construction Number:3963
    Last Civil Registration:N8232
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn DF137...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jenkins George Merritt, Wayne, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n DF137.

    15 May 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8232 (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, 3963) issued.

    30 January 1984

    To Joe C. Spencer, Asheboro, NO with new c/r N8232.

    25 June 2002

    To Jenkins George Merritt, Saint Davids, PA keeping c/r N8232.

    Based at Eagles Mere Air Museum, Merrit Field Airport, Eagles Mere, PA.
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    20 July 2014


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This beautiful 1940 Tiger Moth is part of the flying collection of the Eagles Mere Air Museum.

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8232 (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, 3963) issued.

    30 October 2018

    To Jenkins George Merritt, Wayne, PA keeping c/r N8232.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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