VH-GVA(2)    de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth         (c/n  DHA1014)

                                 
                               
                                     When Goulburn Valley Air Services folded in the late 1950s, the Goulburn Valley Aero Club
                                     snapped up their registration series.   This aircraft had previously been part of the McKenzie
                                     Flying School fleet at Moorabbin as VH-GME and was purchased by GVAC when McKenzie
                                     went out of business in the early 1960s.  Its RAAF serial had been A17-579.  The photo above,
                                     by Bob Neate, was taken at Horsham in 1962.  It was still club owned when Geoff Goodall took
                                     the shot below at Swan Hill in 1965, although, as was the vogue in those days, the rego had been
                                     moved to the fin.  By May 1967 when Goodall took the third shot at its then home base of Shep-
                                     parton, Victoria, and was sporting a positively ghastly red and black paint job.  Looks like a red
                                     rego on a black fin.....shades of the RACNSW in the 1950s.  In the early 1990s this Tiger was
                                     used at air shows for wing walking, as seen in the color shot at the foot of  this page taken by
                                     George Canciani at Ballarat in 1990.  VH-GVA is still on the register, (in Victoria) although the
                                     wing walking support has been removed.