VH-ATE de
Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth
(c/n DHA885/T257)
This Peter R. Keating photo was taken at
Moorabbin on 3 March 1963. -ATE was one of the large
Tiger
Moth fleet of Super Spread Aviation, and is seen having been rolled out
after an overhaul. It had
been fitted with a spare lower left wing previously on another of
their Tigers, VH-BBD (rego still visible
in this
shot). Formerly A17-468 this Tiger had first been
civilianized in July 1946. Super Spread had
requested
a re-registration of it into their VH-SS block and DCA had changed it
to VH-SSK(2) the
previous month, so it was probably just waiting for the painter to do
his thing.