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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:T8253 RAF
    Construction Number:84526
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-CZX
    Latest Owner or Location:Adie Aviation Ltd, Croydon Airport

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n T8253.

    18 April 1952

    To Adie Aviation Ltd, Croydon Airport with c/r G-AMNE (DH82A TIGER MOTH, 84526).

    From June 1952 to 1968

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-BBK.

    1969

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-CZX.

    1969

    Restoration started.

    September 1978


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1978 photo at Wigram

    17 December 1978

    Crashed.
    The vintage biplane was flying through the Buller Gorge when it struck wires and crashed. Pilot Murray Neich and his passenger Jacqueline Barber both died - the impact was survivable but the aircraft crashed upside-down in the river.

    1998

    Restoration started.
    At Gisborne, New Zealand.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    de Havilland Aircraft Production
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     Terry Fletcher
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