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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:NZ863 RNZAF
    Construction Number:82355
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-AQA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn NZ863...
    Latest Owner or Location:G. Smith, Dairy Flat

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.
    Built by de Havilland at Hatfield - but assembled in NZ.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n N9254.

    15 February 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ863.

    8 July 1947

    To J. Reid from Woodbourne with new c/r ZK-AQA.


    Photographer: Whites Aviation

    July 1950

    To Nelson Aero Club keeping c/r ZK-AQA.

    October 1956

    To McCready Aviation keeping c/r ZK-AQA.

    1957

    To J. Wilson, Te Awamutu keeping c/r ZK-AQA.

    4 June 1961

    To Auckland Gliding Club keeping c/r ZK-AQA.

    25 January 1965

    Crashed.
    The aircraft suffered from an engine failure shortly after takeoff while towing a glider and crashed into the roof of Ardmore Teachers College., Auckland NZ - Badly damaged and stored as possible rebuild.

    25 January 1965


    Photographer: Dave Arthur Howell / Facebook
    Notes: Crash at Ardmore, NZ

    7 September 1988

    To G. Smith, Dairy Flat.

    Owned by G.S. and G.A. Smith and stored in damaged condition at Dairy Flat Airfield. North Shore, NZ.
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