Thanks Baz.
Thanks for the compliments Aerovet. We have a pretty complete history of this Tiger courtesy of the Moth Club, (That's how I found her for sale in the first place).
According to my research so far, I'm pretty sure that she was ship #30 off of the Morris Motors production line. Tiger production had to be moved from Hatfield because they were working on a "secret bomber". I wonder if anyone can figure out what that might have been
As she is such an early serial# (83157) I have learned of only one older complete example, still extant from the Morris line (this machine was delivered to Australia where she still resides.)
Our Moth was delivered to the RAF in April of 1940. We have not yet found any photos of her in RAF livery, so our markings are spurious.
However, I do like to believe that our Tiger trained pilots that fought in the "Battle of Britain". Until someone proves otherwise......
Through her history she has been "rolled up in a ball" more than once
Not only was she PH-ALG, she was previously wrecked as PH-UDY before that as well
I'm glad the Dutch rebuilt her, but that "Boddenplank" (translates as bedboard) tail
. What a thing to do to those lovely deHavilland lines.
Thanks for the interest folks. I'll update soon. I have to go back to work for several days
. Such is life
Andy