VH-ATN de
Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth (c/n DHA100)
Another Tiger with a canopy. This Tiger is still on
the register (based in NSW), although is not,
at the present time,
flyable. The provenance of my image, (above) has been lost, but I
suspect it
was at Mascot circa
1950. Geoff Goodall's shot (immediately below #2) was taken
at Parafield,
Adelaide in 1965, whilst
Greg Banfield's color shot (#3) was at Bankstown in February 1966.
.
This
Tiger was ex-RAAF A17-103
and was the 100th DHA machine built.
It didn't always have
a canopy
in its civilian life as evidenced by image # 4 from the Graeme
Parsons collection. This
was taken at Camden in
1948. The
lady in the center is
Graeme's mother. The bloke on her right
(leather jacket) is Emlyn
"Brud" Rees (not from
Wales, I don't suppose, was he?) who
later had a
seaplane (VH-AKD) with which he did some fish spotting
"up north".
Clearly some aerial shenan-
igans
were holding their attention. Finally,
at the
foot of the page (# 5) is an air-to-air shot of -ATN
taken by Geoff
Goodall near Benalla, Victoria in February
1975
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