VH-BIV  de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth                       (c/n  DHA.633)

                                    

                                        Here's another rare photograph from the Barrie Colledge collection depicting a Tiger of the
                                        Royal Victorian Aero Club at Essendon in the 1940s. This aircraft was the former RAAF
                                        A17-439.  It was destroyed in a prang at Mulgrave, Victoria on 6 Dec 1953, by which time
                                        the club had moved its operations to the new airport at Moorabbin.