VH-BJD  de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth    (c/n  1034)


                        

                            By the time I first saw this Tiger at Moorabbin in 1956 it had already been relegated to crop
                            dusting duties.  Possibly it was an ex Aero Club machine?     It crashed at Swan Hill, Victoria
                            in 1976.  If it spent twenty years as a crop duster, it would have well exceeded its expected life
                            span.  Geoff Goodall took a shot of it (below) in the hangar at Mildura when it had just been
                            retired by Sunraysia Air Farmers