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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:EM720 RAF
    Construction Number:85951
    Last Civil Registration:G-AXAN
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn EM720...
    Latest Owner or Location:Duxford Consulting Ltd, Carterton

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland at Hatfield.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n EM720.

    6 December 1950

    To Etat/Ministere Des Armees/Etat Major Armee de L Air, Paris with new c/r F-BDMM.

    17 February 1969

    To Aero Club D Annonay Et de La Vallee Du Rhone, Albon, Rhone Alpes keeping c/r F-BDMM.
    Based at St Rambert Dand#39;albon.

    17 February 1969

    Civil registration, F-BDMM, cancelled.

    1 July 1979


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At the Famous Grouse Moth Rally at Strathallan, Scotland

    From 15 October 1985 to 7 June 1990

    To Comarket Aviation Ltd with new c/r G-AXAN.

    From 7 June 1990 to 26 October 1990

    To Mark Ford Newman keeping c/r G-AXAN.

    From 26 October 1990 to 6 August 2003

    To Michael Edward Carrell keeping c/r G-AXAN.

    From 6 August 2003 to 15 May 2008

    To Leading Edge Marketing Ltd keeping c/r G-AXAN.

    2 May 2005


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: Photographed at the Shuttleworth Trust dispaly, Old Warden, England

    15 May 2008

    To David Firth, Greenways, BLYTH, Worksop, Sheila Ann Firth, Greenways, BLYTH, Worksop keeping c/r G-AXAN.

    Based at Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    9 August 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2015 photo at Darley Moor, near Ashbourne in the UK - giving weekend pleasure rides

    9 August 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2015 photo at Darley Moor, near Ashbourne in the UK - giving weekend pleasure rides

    9 August 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2015 photo at Darley Moor, near Ashbourne in the UK - giving weekend pleasure rides

    4 December 2015

    To Duxford Consulting Ltd, Carterton keeping c/r G-AXAN.

    14 May 2022

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Destroyed during landing when undercarriage collapsed, and aircraft inverted at a private farm strip near Duxford.
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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