VH-AKG de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger
Moth (c/n
DHA792)
There were two Tigers
registered VH-AKG (as well as a DC-3 and Beech Baron). This is
the second of
them. The first was re-registered VH-PCA in 1954.
DHA792 was one of
the production batch slated for RAF Heany,
Southern Rhodesia as (DX717). This one, how-
ever, was never shipped to Africa and went
instead to the RAAF as A17-642. It was civil-
ianized as VH-RNW, then became VH-WFP and
VH-TSJ before assuming its VH-AKG
identity in 1963. Geoff Goodall took this shot
of it at Blyth, SA in 1964. It was damaged
and written off in a storm at Broken Hill in
1968.