VH-BAL  de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth                  (c/n  82561/DHA 7)

                               

                                   This Tiger was assembled at Mascot from a fuselage supplied by D.H.s in Hatfield and locally
                                   built wings.  It was delivered to the RAAF in 1939 as A17-7.  Civilianized in 1947, it acquired
                                   a Canadian style canopy somewhere along the way.  The above shot, from the John Oxley Library,
                                   State Library of Queensland collection shows it at Archerfield in the mid 1940s.    It is still (2008)
                                   on the register, and based now in NSW.     Ken Tilley took a photo of it, (below, sans canopy), at
                                   Coffs Harbour in January of 1982 (below).   Into the new millennium it was still wearing the same
                                   livery, although I have not seen any truly contemporary images of it.  .