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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:DE298 RAF
    Construction Number:85332
    Last Civil Registration:N524R
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn DE298...
    Latest Owner or Location:John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1943

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n DE298.

    April 1943

    Transferred to Number 16 Elementary Flying Training School.

    27 July 1945

    Transferred to Number 20 Maintenance Unit, Aston Down.

    November 1953

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    1966

    To Cliff Robertson with new c/r N524R.

    9 February 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N524R (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, DE-298) issued.

    8 June 1989

    To William D. Lusk, Newport Beach, CA keeping c/r N524R.

    5 March 1990

    Involved in an incident.
    Landing accident at Le Tourquet, France.

    24 March 1990


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: Attended the 1990 World Vintage Air Rally held at White Waltham in the UK

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N524R (TIGER MOTH DH 82A, DE-298) issued.

    28 October 2013

    To Brent W. Ducoing, Anaheim, CA keeping c/r N524R.
    Based at Orange County Airport, Santa Ana, CA.

    Based at John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, CA.
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    15 March 2018

    Civil registration, N524R, cancelled.
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     de Havilland Aircraft Production
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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