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Tiger Moth aircraft was the first aeroplane used for spreading superphosphate in Australia, undertaken by EastWest Airlines at AS Nivison’s Mirani property in February 1950. Prior to that it was used in 1947 to spread 600 acres of linseed at Walcha. The aircraft was built in Sydney in 1940 for the RAAF and was used by the RAAF for pilot training at Narromine, Narrandera, Bundaberg and Lowood between 1940 and 1943. Then used at the Air Gunner School at West Sale, Victoria. It was sold by the Federal Government at the end of the Second World War to Edward Macarthur-Onslow who used it at his Flying and Gliding School at Camden. At one stage it was fitted with a spray tank and boom and used to spray tobacco crops at Dalby, Queensland. It was donated to the Society in 1965 by Mr Tom Watson, managing director of Aerial Agriculture Pty Ltd. The hangar was erected by the Rotary Club of Walcha. Source: walchansw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/WDHS-Brochure...

This is a license-built Caproni Ca-5 built by Fisher Body in the U.S., wearing the serial number S.C. 40070. Here is footage of this same aircraft in flight posted by CriticalPast on YouTube: YouTube - CriticalPast: "A Caproni plane in flight, United States HD Stock Footage"