✈️ Help Restore a Historic British Warbird – The Tiger Moth G-AHMN

️ Goal: £10,000 for Initial Fuselage Restoration Works

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About the Project

We're launching this GoFundMe to restore a significant piece of British aviation heritage: the de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth, registration G-AHMN, military serial N6985. Our goal is to raise £10,000 to commence vital restoration works on the aircraft’s fuselage sections, the foundation upon which this iconic trainer will one day fly again.

This isn’t just any Tiger Moth. G-AHMN has a rich operational history, serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, where it trained young men to become fighter and bomber pilots in the lead-up to—and throughout—the war, including the decisive months of the Battle of Britain.

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Service Life: A Veteran’s Story

Built in 1938, N6985 entered service with the Royal Air Force, assigned to various Elementary Flying Training Schools (EFTS).

She served faithfully through the early 1940s, training new recruits under the pressures of wartime expansion.

Her work was essential: the Tiger Moth was the RAF’s primary training aircraft, the very first aircraft many pilots ever flew.

After WWII, she was retired from military service and transitioned into the civil register, becoming G-AHMN.

In her later life, she became a heritage asset, displayed at the Army Flying Museum, where she helped educate the public on Britain's aviation past.

In more recent years, she was privately acquired and safeguarded, and is now on long-term loan to a heritage aviation hangar where her restoration journey begins.

This aircraft has already served King and Country—now she serves history and community.

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Our Vision

This restoration isn’t a commercial venture—it’s a heartfelt mission to preserve and revive British aviation history for future generations.

Once G-AHMN is airworthy, she will:

Appear at public airshows and living history events, flying once again in RAF training colours.

Offer school outreach programmes, where young people can learn about aviation and heritage in an inspiring hands-on environment.

Provide veteran experiences and be used as an airborne tribute to those who flew her predecessors into war.

Act as a flying classroom, engaging with communities across the UK.

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Why £10,000?

This campaign aims to fund Stage 1 of her restoration: the structural and cosmetic restoration of her fuselage. This includes:

Inspection and conservation of wooden and metal framework

Reconstruction of damaged stringers, former stations, and cockpit bracing

Replacement of fatigued or missing fabric skin, using traditional methods

Restoration of pilot seating and primary controls, which have suffered over time

This work must come first—without a stable and authentic fuselage, no further progress is possible.

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❤️ How You Can Help

Every single pound you donate helps keep our history alive:

£10: Buys authentic linen fabric for a fuselage section.

£25: Pays for internal corrosion treatment on original frames.

£50: Helps reconstruct missing elements of the pilot cockpit.

£100+: Directly supports hands-on restoration by specialist engineers.

We welcome individual supporters, history lovers, RAF veterans, aviation fans, and anyone passionate about preserving British heritage.

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Be Part of Her Journey

All donors will receive:

Behind-the-scenes photos and progress updates

A chance to attend open hangar events

Their name on a Supporter’s Honour Plaque, to fly aboard the aircraft in future

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️ Preserve. Inspire. Fly.

Let’s honour the generation that trained and fought in these aircraft. With your help, G-AHMN will fly again, not as a relic, but as a living, breathing tribute to Britain’s finest.

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Donate today and become part of G-AHMN’s next chapter.

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