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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Jackaroo
    Last Military Serial:T.7087 RAF
    Construction Number:83472
    Last Civil Registration:G-BPAJ
    Latest Owner or Location:John David Smith and Jeffrey Marwood Hodgson

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by Morris Motors at Cowley, England.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n T.7087.

    Converted to a Jackaroo by Thruxton.

    13 January 1956

    To Alan Henry Jones with new c/r G-AOIX.

    14 May 1957

    To The Wiltshire Flying School, Thruxton Aerodrome, Wiltshire keeping c/r G-AOIX.

    June 1958


    Photographer: Tony Clarke Collection
    Notes: At White Waltham airfield

    9 March 1965

    To Malcolm Francis Ogilvie-Forbes, Andover, Hampshire keeping c/r G-AOIX.

    22 February 1968

    To Malcolm Boddington, Wellingborough, Northants keeping c/r G-AOIX.

    24 June 1969

    Withdrawn from use.

    Circa 5 November 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-BPAJ (DH82A TIGER MOTH, 83472) issued.

    5 November 1980

    To Peter Arthur Jackson, Erin House, Church Street, Woodhurst, Huntingdon with new c/r G-BPAJ.

    10 July 1990


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    24 October 2016

    To John David Smith and Jeffrey Marwood Hodgson keeping c/r G-BPAJ.

    30 July 2017


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: At the Moth Fly-In at Old Warden

    1 September 2019


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2019 LAA Rally at Sywell
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