VH-GLG de
Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth (c/n 330/T260)
This was the former Superspread
Pty machine Ltd VH-SSK.
It was owned, at the time, by
G. L. Gangell, who also
owned another Tiger, VH-GLH. -GLG originally saw service
with
the RAAF as A17-311, and
was civilianized
in 1946 as VH-AQI with the
Tasmanian Aero
Club. (As such, I had actually
flown it, back in 1952). .Anyway, my shot of it as -GLG above
was taken at Moorabbin
in 1957. A year later it appears to have
returned to Tassie
and
sported a canopy, (and
very poor Gs in the rego) in the shot seen immediately below from the
John Hopton
collection. Geoff Goodall saw it again at Stawell, Victoria
some ten years later
(foot of the page), in much
better shape, and retaining the canopy. It
is still on the active register,
based in
South Australia.
