VH-AJF (1)  de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth               (c/n  DHA304)

                                      

                                       The only photo I have been able to glean of the first -AJF is this newspaper print
                                       from the Hobart Mercury for 21 April 1949.  Graeme Parsons, who diligently dug
                                       it out for me reports that, oddly, the Sydney Morning Herald had only a photograph
                                       of the engineer/passenger Trevor Sutton relating to the accident, despite the fact that
                                       the machine crashed into Sydney Harbour and was towed to shallow water near Manly
                                       The pilot was 21 year old Ralph Naughton.  The Tiger which was civilianized on 23
                                       April 1947 (ex A17-285) was written off following this dousing on 19 April 1949.
                                       1949.