Harvard / Tiger Moth Info Please

G-AHOO seen at last weekends Moth rally at Halton.

I came across this thread whist searching for anything on Heston Aerodrome (my pet subject)

I recall finding what I assume was that very same fuel tank, thrown over a wire fence that ran along side an alley way at the back of Kingsley Road, behind where the old 86 Sqn HQ stood. It would have been early seventies I think?

About the same time I joined 86 Sqn, by then based at Heston TA centre and recall seeing a seat and instrument panel and various other bits and pieces which I was told came from the Tiger Moth.

Interestingly some 35 years later I find myself attached to 187 (City of Worcester) Sqn… and in the stores the other day I found the gun sight and various instruments in a box from the Spitfire that once stood outside the Sqn building…..

BTW if any one has any snippets, memorabilia, photos (especially y after closure) of Heston Aerodrome…I would love to make contact with them…..

86(F) used to be right next to the tube station, I was civilian instructor there
1960-1 before joining RAF
Don’t know when it moved

I used to live about 10 mins walk from Hounslow East Tube,and as far as I’m aware there was no ATC squadron based there.I was in the ATC for a couple of years in the mid-90’s as a member of 86Sqn (Heston & Isleworth),which was much further away. Presumably the Hounslow East squadron was disbanded by then.

Thanks for the help so far – unless my memory is wrong I saw it broken up !
Another pic “Walking the Tiger”

The hounslow Tiger Moth was EM967 according to ‘wrecks and relics 3’ from 1968, this is currently registered as G-AHOO and has a current CofA . So if W&R is correct it was not burnt? Anybody expand, photos?

On a harvard they are on the left hand tube by the pilots knee – or on the roll over hoop top or bars leading to it…they are often nicked though….