VH-CAG  (1)   de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth               (c/n  DHA596)

                         

                               Here's a nice shot of VH-CAG, the Department's last Tiger Moth, taken while low flying at
                               Perth Airport in May 1957 during a DCA check of an agricultural pilot (image from the Geoff
                               Goodall collection).   Like most of DCA's Tigers it was formerly fitted with a canopy, as seen
                               in the photograph below from the Reg Adkins collection, courtesy of the Civil Aviation Historical
                               Society archives.  This shot was taken after the aircraft had suffered a mishap at the old Maylands
                               Airport in Perth.   The aircraft had originally been civilianized from A17-421 in 1947 as VH-AZL. 
                               It was re-registered VH-CAG in 1949, and somewhere around that time received its Canadian-
                               style canopy, wheel brakes and a tail wheel.    The aircraft was sold in 1960 to the Gliding Assoc-
                               iation of Western Australia in Cunderdin and appropriately registered VH-TUG.   Later it became
                               VH-CKF.