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Narrative: de Havilland DH82a Tiger Moth MSN 84671; Taken on charge as T6245 at 22 EFTS RAF Teversham, Cambridge 3.6.41. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 9.8.45 for long-term stroage pedning disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 30.3.51 to Hants & Sussex Aviation Ltd, Portsmouth Airport, Portsmouth, Hampshire. UK civil registered as G-AMVH (C of R R3838) 6.10.52 to Hants & Sussex Aviation Ltd, Portsmouth. C of A issued 12.10.53. Registration G-AMVH cancelled 12.10.53 as 'subsequently sold abroad - New Zealand'.
Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BEN 16.2.54 to Southland & Otago Aerial Topdressing Co Ltd, Dunedin. C of A issued 20.7.54. Re-registered 9.10.55 to Air Services (Wairarapa) Ltd, Masterton.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when hit trees on take-off and destroyed by fire at Tauweru, Wairarapa, near Masterton 28.3.56. Pilot F A Jolly. Registration ZK-BEN cancelled 8.5.56.
Tauweru, alternatively Taueru, and previously known as Wardell, or Wardelltown is a locality in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand's North Island.
Rebuilt by Croydon Aircraft Co, Mandeville & registration restored 1.4.98 to Jet Imports Ltd, [David Phillips], Ardmore (painted in East Coast Air Services coloursm fleet no.5). Re-registered 23.3.10 to Clevedon Aviation Ltd, Papakura. Currently registered.