Our Company

Vintage Tiger Moth Joyflights is owned and operated by Garry Herne who offers rides in his Tiger Moths and Yak 52 aircraft in conjunction with the Point Cook Flying Club. Garry is a highly experienced international airline pilot and all flights are conducted with the highest degree of professionalism and safety.

Garry regularly gives low level aerobatic flying displays in the Tiger Moth at major airshows and for the RAAF Museum. No other joyflight operation in Australia has as many highly experienced aircrew as our business. Most of our pilots are current Airline Pilots and have many thousands of hours of experience from light aircraft and military aircraft through to heavy jet transport types. Vintage Tiger Moth Joyflights has been operating since 1998 and has completed over 3000 flights safely.

Our Aircraft

All our aircraft are merticulously maintained with our Tiger Moth, VH-LJM, winning the Concourse d'Elegance award for Best Warbird Trainer at the 2005 Australian International Air Show. Our second Tiger Moth, VH-BEN, has undergone a major restoration in January 2006 and is a supurb example of the type as operated by the RAAF to train combat pilots in WWII. Both Tiger Moths are finished in identical post-war silver colour schemes with yellow training stripes and carry the original RAAF markings. The Tiger Moths are capable of a wide range of aerobatic manoeuvres such as spins, loops, rolls, stall turns etc. Some of these manoeuvres originated in WWII when aircraft were dog fighting over the Western Front.

The Yak 52, VH-YYA, is a 1991 model built for the Russian Air Force, making it one of the newest Yaks in Australia. Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union this aircraft was placed in storage until 1997 when it was imported to Australia. The aircraft carries its original military colour scheme and it complete with Russian instrumentation and radios.