A DH82A Tiger Moth produced for De Havilland in Australia with the production number DHA334 was operated by the RAAF as A17-315 and also registered as VH-AMV.
In 1941, A17-315 was photographed at No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School (10 EFTS), the flying school set up by The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at Temora in New South Wales. No 10 EFTS operated from 1941 to 1946 and at its peak hosted around a hundred Tiger Moths.
The Tiger Moth registered as A17-315 and also registered as VH-AMV reportedly sustained damage at North Perth in 1951.
The civil registration VH-AMV would later be allocated to a de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 constructed in 1950. Over 1200 of these aircraft intended to replace the Tiger Moth as a trainer aircraft were produced in Canada and Europe.
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