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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:DE744 RAF
    Construction Number:85674
    Last Civil Registration:N39DH
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn DE744...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n DE744.

    1953

    To unknown owner with c/r G-ANCN {2}.

    1955

    To unknown owner with c/r OO-NCN {2}.


    Photographer: Georges De Preter Collection

    1970

    To unknown owner with c/r N39DH.

    24 July 1973

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX39DH (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, DE744) issued.

    2 May 1980

    To John Paul Jordon, Clark, NJ keeping c/r N39DH.

    2 May 1980

    To Susan and Kurt Hofschneider, Colonia, N. J keeping c/r N39DH.
    Co-owner with J.P. Jordon.

    August 1998

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    The beautifully restored Tiger Moth on display has won numerous trophies at air shows, including a prestigious Category Championship for WWII airplanes at the annual show at Oshkosh, Wis. It was donated to the museum by Susan and Kurt Hofschneider of Colonia, N.J., and J.P. Jordan of Slippery Rock, Penn. (NMUSAF).

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Museum of the USAF

    4 January 2018

    Civil registration, N39DH, cancelled.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Flicker
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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