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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:DH-82C Tiger Moth
    Last Military Serial:5030 RCAF
    Construction Number:C829
    Last Civil Registration:C-GCOE
    Compressed ID:deHavilland Canada DH-82C sn 5030 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association, Tillsonburg, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DH-82C by deHavilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 5030.

    22 June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge.

    22 June 1941

    Transferred to No. 4 Training Command.

    Transferred to No. 10 Repair Depot, Calgary, AB.

    Transferred to No. 32 Elementary Flying Training School, Bowden, AB.

    20 September 1941

    Category C Crash.
    Crashed at the Swift Current Aerodrome and the damage was evaluated as Category C5.

    17 October 1941

    Transferred to M and C Aviation.
    Sent to M and C for repairs.

    17 October 1941

    Transferred to M and C Aviation.
    Sent to M and C for repairs.

    29 December 1941

    Transferred to No. 4 TC, No. 16 Elementary Flying Training School, Edmonton, AB.

    17 January 1942

    Category C Crash.
    Crashed at Edmonton and the damage was evaluated as Category C.

    24 March 1942

    Category C Crash.
    Crashed at Edmonton and the damage was evaluated as Category C.

    27 June 1942

    Assigned to for storage.

    29 December 1942

    Transferred to No. 31 Elementary Flying Training School, de Winton, AB.

    26 August 1943

    Transferred to M and C Aviation.
    Sent to M and C for overhaul.

    1 November 1943

    Transferred to Mid-West Aviation, Winnipeg, MN.
    Mid-West completed the overhaul.

    6 January 1944

    Assigned to No. 2 Training Command for storage.

    10 February 1944

    Removed from storage.

    25 July 1944

    Designated for disposal.

    1 December 1944

    Assigned to No. 2 Air Command for storage.
    Still pending disposal.

    Assigned to No. 26 Elementary Flying Training School, Neepawa, MB for storage.
    Still pending disposal.

    28 July 1945

    Struck off Strength/Charge.

    To War Assets Corporation.

    To Royal Canadian Flying Club Association.

    Assigned civil registration: CF-CHT

    7 May 1946

    To Aero Club of BC, Vancouver, BC keeping c/r .

    7 September 1949

    To R. Mainwaring, Port Hardy, BC keeping c/r .

    15 November 1949

    Crashed.
    Crashed in poor weather at Powell River, BC.

    Civil registration, CF-CHT, cancelled.

    From By 3 July 1975 to 11 July 1989

    To I. Zacharias, North Battleford, SK with new c/r C-GCOE.

    11 July 1989

    Civil registration, C-GCOE, cancelled.

    From 19 October 1989 to 13 January 1994

    To Croton Flyers Inc, Wallaceburg, ON.

    13 January 1994

    To Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association, Tillsonburg, ON keeping c/r .

    From 13 January 1994 to 25 March 1994

    Based at Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association, Tillsonburg, ON.
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    25 March 1994

    Civil registration revised.
    Registration updated to show CHAA ownership.

    August 1994


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    27 September 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for C-GCOE (DH 82-C, 5030) issued.

    Markings Applied: 5030

    16 June 2007


    Photographer: Shane Clayton
    Notes: CHAAs DH-82C Tiger Moth C-GCOE ready for a days worth of flying at Tillsonburg, Ontario.

    6 November 2008

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GCOE.

    3 June 2021

    Civil registration, C-GCOE, cancelled.


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