VH-CAH (1) de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger
Moth
(c/n DHA800)
This photo of a
DCA Tiger, from the Daryl Mackenzie collection, was taken in PNG in
1961/62.
The aircraft is facing out towards
the Solomon Sea, and the shipwreck is the Tanyo Maru which
was sunk
just off
the end of the original Lae airstrip during WW II.
VH-CAH was the former
VH-AZM which was
first registered in December
1947 (ex A17-650) before going to the Dept.
of Civil
Aviation in October 1949 for use in Papua/New Guinea.. It was
written off following
a crash at Lae on 25 September
1962. The photo below, from the Macarthur Job
collection,
comes via the archives of the CAHS.
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