VH-BIN de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger
Moth
(c/n 82186)
VH-BIN was the Hatfield built Tiger, G-AFNM shipped out to
Australia just at the outbreak
of WW II.
Upon arrival it was impressed into RAAF service as A17-684.
Returned to the
civilian market
after the war, it became VH-BIN, VH-ADO having been reassigned to an ex-
RAAF
D.H.60M Moth. . It remained active as -BIN until Christmas
Eve,1992 when it was
reregistered VH-HVY. Geoff vGoodall saw it (above) at Tyabb in
December 1989. In 2001
it was sold in the USA as N82MK, and lnow ives in Rockford, IL