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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:Tiger Moth II
    Last Military Serial:R4959 RAF
    Construction Number:82867
    Last Civil Registration:G-ARAZ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Tiger Moth II sn R4959...
    Latest Owner or Location:David Ambrose Porter, The Old Granary, Temple Bruer, Lincoln

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a Tiger Moth II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n R4959.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-ARAZ.

    Markings Applied: Wears Large Serial 59

    From 13 May 1980 to 6 January 1989

    To Malcolm Victor Gauntlett keeping c/r G-ARAZ.

    From 6 January 1989 to 8 July 1991

    To Proteus Petroleum Aviation Ltd keeping c/r G-ARAZ.

    From 8 July 1991 to 26 February 1993

    To Robert Marshall Brooks keeping c/r G-ARAZ.

    From 26 February 1993 to 21 October 1993

    To Glidegold Ltd keeping c/r G-ARAZ.

    From 21 October 1993 to 17 October 1997

    To Stuart Graham North keeping c/r G-ARAZ.

    17 October 1997

    To David Ambrose Porter, The Old Granary, Temple Bruer, Lincoln with new c/r G-ARAZ.

    21 August 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: DH Moth Club Rally at Belvoir Castle in the UK

    21 August 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: DH Moth Club Rally at Belvoir Castle in the UK

    15 May 2016


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: Just about to land at Old Warden, Beds, UK
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