Ah, the dear old Tiger Moth! What a wonderful aeroplane it still is. As Danny says, there were more surplus Tigers in the 50's than you could count. Evidently many of the survivors still show damage and/or repairs to the nose cowl where they were stood on end, a la Toast Racks, in storage awaiting their fate. One such fate was to have the centre fuselage widened out and a four seater (just) cabin replace the two cockpits, the engine moved forward a little and the rear fuselage lengthened to accommodate baggage. The result was a cheap touring aircraft with utility variants (crop dusting etc), called the Thruxton Jackaroo. As the name suggests this was done at Thruxton where was the Wiltshire School of Flying. It was to there that I reported as the lucky recipient of a CCF Flying Scholarship. Most of the training was on the Jackaroo, but the spinning and stalling stuff still had to be done on the Tiger, thank goodness!
Happy days; no radios, no ATC, and our accommodation in the ubiquitous Nissen Hut. The airfield had been a USAAF Thunderbolt base during the recent "unpleasantness" and little had changed meantime. Car and Motorbike Racing were still a good idea yet to occur...
Thruxton Jackaroo -