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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:DE730 RAF
    Construction Number:85660
    Last Civil Registration:9H-RAF
    Compressed ID:Morris Motors Ltd Tiger Moth II sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta

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    Dates

    Event

    1931

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

    1931

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n DE730.

    From 15 November 1958 to 1 August 1961

    To George Collins, Truro, Cornwall with new c/r G-ANFW.

    From 1 August 1961 to 21 October 1969

    To Cornish Gliding Club, Perranporth, Cornwall keeping c/r G-ANFW.

    19 November 1971

    To Derek Wright, Bude, Cornwall keeping c/r G-ANFW.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    From 22 September 1975 to 10 March 2000

    To Gordon Michael Kingsley Fraser, Battlemead, Maidenhead keeping c/r G-ANFW.

    1 June 1980


    Photographer: C Peter Russell-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at Greenham Common.

    5 July 1980


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Leicester.

    6 September 1994


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: At White Waltham

    10 March 2000

    Civil registration, G-ANFW, cancelled.

    2000

    To Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta.
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    Restored.

    By 2010

    To Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta with new c/r 9H-RAF.

    3 March 2014


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: Preserved at the Malta Aviation Museum

    18 February 2021

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