VH-AQR
de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth
(c/n DHA61)
This photo is from the album of Robert
Blaikie. It was taken at Archerfield in 1952 and depicts his
late uncle, Frank W.
Paltridge who was flying his daughter, Diana, (immaculate in school
uniform)
home from boarding school
to their property at St. George, Queensland. The Tiger was one of
the
Royal Queensland Aero Club's and based,
at the time, at St. George. The RQAC maintained several
out statioin locales for
branches of the club in those years. . This Tiger was
withdrawn from use in
April 1962. It
then languished in as hangar until 1971 when it was sold in the US as
N9279. As
such it crashed and was
written off in Virginia in 1990. It is was rebuilt in 2008 as
N282DH and
flew in the Houston,
Tx area. In March 2011 it was sold in Israel and is, I believe,
still current there.