SAKE de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger
Moth
(c/n ?)
In 1938 a score or so of Tiger Moths was imported for various flying
clubs. This one went to
the Johannesburg Light Plane Club at Baragwanath.
Oddly, the serial numbers of many of
these aircraft have not been identifiable within the batch. Hence
the ? on the c/n.
ZS-AKE
was, along with many other civil aircraft, impressed into the SAAF in
1940. It became serial
1330 There is no record of it surviving the war. Photo
above from the Douglas Mail collection.