VH-AYX  de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth               (c/n   DHA341)

                                     
                                                         
                                          Two nice shots of this Tiger both taken at Bankstown.. Above, by the late (and great) Peter Keating
                                         on 29 September 1956, a few weeks after it was sold by Bankstown aircraft dealers Kingsford Smith
                                         Aviation Service to Pasture Improvement Aviation Service, Grenfell NSW.     It already has a hopper
                                         installed in the front cockpit for dusting or seeding. Below, a short while previously, by Jim Dyson. Note
                                         Airspeed Consul (never civilly registered) in the background.     VH-AYX was the former A17-322
                                         and civilianized in November 1946. It had a series of  Sydney private owners before being converted
                                         for agricultural use.  It ended up with Territory Rice Ltd in the Northern Territory and was retired in
                                         a hangar at Alice Springs and cancelled from the register in December 1965.