Seed plane loading at Kiddell Plains, December 1962. De Havilland Australia DH-82A Tiger Moth VH-APH was built in Mascot, NSW in September 1940 for the Royal Australian Air Force and carried RAAF serial 17-116. It served with Elementary Flying Training School in Tasmania and went into storage at the end of WW2. It was sold to a private buyer in 1946 and registered as VH-APH with Queensland Flying Services in 1957. It was sold to Airplanters of Bundaberg and operated in that region performing aerial seeding and other agricultural work until retirement in 1966. It was restored in 1989 and i
Seed plane loading at Kiddell Plains, December 1962. De Havilland Australia DH-82A Tiger Moth VH-APH was built in Mascot, NSW in September 1940 for the Royal Australian Air Force and carried RAAF serial 17-116. It served with Elementary Flying Training School in Tasmania and went into storage at the end of WW2. It was sold to a private buyer in 1946 and registered as VH-APH with Queensland Flying Services in 1957. It was sold to Airplanters of Bundaberg and operated in that region performing aerial seeding and other agricultural work until retirement in 1966. It was restored in 1989 and is still flyable today.
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