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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:NZ1455 RNZAF
    Construction Number:DHNZ135
    Last Civil Registration:HB-UPM
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn NZ145...
    Latest Owner or Location:Thomas Hulliger, Leonhard-Ragaz-Weg 9 8055 Zurich, Switzerland

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ1455.

    1 September 1949

    To Stratford Aero Club of Woodbourne with new c/r ZK-ATM {1}.

    22 June 1951

    To Airspread Ltd, Tauranga keeping c/r ZK-ATM {1}.
    Markings added: Mighty Atom

    To Auckland Flying School keeping c/r ZK-ATM {1}.

    September 1967

    Crashed.
    At Ardmore, NZ.

    1971

    To J. Greville of Auckland keeping c/r ZK-ATM {1}.

    By June 1975

    Repaired.

    May 1980

    Civil registration, ZK-ATM {1}, cancelled.

    From 21 September 1981 to 26 November 1981

    To Robert Gerald Grocott with new c/r G-BJLI (DH82A TIGER MOTH, DHNZ-135R).

    5 April 1982

    To G. Grocott of Zurich with new c/r HB-UPM (DH 82 A, DHNZ 135R).

    To Captain J. Schott of Winkel, Switzerland keeping c/r HB-UPM.

    To Thomas Hulliger, Leonhard-Ragaz-Weg 9 8055 Zurich, Switzerland keeping c/r HB-UPM.

    6 September 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2013 Oldtimer-Fliegertreffen Hahnweide, one of Europes largest historic aircraft air shows.
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Confederation Suisse
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     Terry Fletcher
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