VH-BEQ de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth
(c/n DHA809)
Here's VH- BEQ at Moorabbin
in 1961, just after being purchased from the Royal Vic Aero Club
by a
Melbourne private owner. It was the second Tiger to bear the
rego VH-BEQ, (the first
was
c/n 83274
which went to New Zealand in 1951 as ZK-AUT). This -BBT
was VH-RVN
whilst
with the
club and was still carrying the club's tail stripes
when this photo, from the Geoff Goodall
collection,
was taken. It was still wearing them when John
Wheatley took the photo below,
possibly
early in 1970, as the machine was being
boxed up for
transportation to the USA
where it
became
N14569. It was current as such
well into
the new millennium, but is no longer registered
(at least,
under that rego).