Tiger Moth repaired

I recently sent information for your newspaper on the old World War II airfield at Woy Woy.

We hope it assisted.

It included the World War II files at National Archives of Australia on the subject for your local enthusiasts.

In your article, you also mentioned the crash of a Tiger Moth aircraft onto a house near the drome.

This occurred on November 3, 1950, apparently during the evening.

The pilot was Miles Wilson Morris, 21, an engineer from Kingsford in Sydney.

He received "concussion and shock after stepping from the aircraft and falling to the ground" (in the dark?).

We have found that the aircraft was VH-APM and had served with the RAAF in World War II as A17-12. It had been built in Britain.

But what is most amazing is that the aircraft was repaired and flew again as a crop duster in Victoria.

Amazingly VH-APM crashed again in 1959 at Foster in Victoria and this time was not repaired.

Email, 26 Oct 2016

Bob Piper, Canberra