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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:A17-237 RAAF
    Construction Number:DHA256
    Last Civil Registration:VH-ARU
    Latest Owner or Location:Harvey Donald McBain, Nelson, VIC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland Australia.
    DH-82A AM237

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A17-237.

    14 May 1946

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-ARU.

    From Unknown to July 1960

    To W. H. Benyon keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    July 1960

    To Airwork Ltd keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    1 August 1960

    Crashed.
    At Wongan Hills.

    1 August 1960


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall Collection
    Notes: Airwork Pty Ltd Tiger Moth VH-ARU at Wongan Hills WA on 1 August 1960 after the pilot struck treeswhile crop spraying. Damage was not excessive by the standards of the day, but the wreck was stored inthe companys Geraldton hangar and auctioned in 1962

    November 1980


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: At Beverley WA

    25 March 1989


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Kyabram, Victoria

    4 February 1999

    To Peter Hearnshaw, Airlie Beach, QLD keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    20 April 2005

    To Peter McNaughton, Hamilton, VIC keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    22 May 2006

    Operated by Whitsunday Tiger Moth Adventures Pty Ltd.

    3 June 2006

    To Peter Hearnshaw, Airlie Beach, QLD keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    12 September 2008

    Operated by Whitsunday Tiger Moth Adventures Pty Ltd.

    1 October 2014

    To Nicholas Alistair Rorison, Cannonvale, QLD keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    27 October 2014

    To Nicholas Alistair Rorison, Airlie Beach, QLD keeping c/r VH-ARU.

    8 August 2016

    To Harvey Donald McBain, Nelson, VIC keeping c/r VH-ARU.
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