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By Ben Dunnell 18th April 2022

… The very fine restoration of a de Havilland Dragon Rapide also resurrected a British airline … it. As a young RAF airman he gained his pilot’s wings on a Tiger Moth in 1944. When the British retook Singapore in …

By Tara Leggett 15th June 2021

… Jeff Milsom from the Tiger Nine Display Team chats to Key.Aero about the pilot’s … pilots and the Moth-lovers on the ground wanted more. The de Havilland Moth Club Tiger Nine was born.   Despite its name, …

23rd February 2021

…   This time, we learn how to fly the iconic DH.82A Tiger Moth. The de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth still graces our skies almost 90 …

By ARTHUR W. J. G. ORD-HUME 5th March 2022

… dominated by around half a dozen makers: British Aircraft, de Havilland, Desoutter, Miles, Blackburn and Avro. There were … with a significantly higher wing loading than, say, a Tiger Moth, it became a pleasure. One disadvantage of the …

30th March 2021

… Tiger Moth G-AGEG, captured shortly after arriving in the … from Bicester and Kemble. Manufactured at Hatfield by the de Havilland Aircraft Company during 1940, the Tiger was taken …

By RICHARD G. WILSHER 30th March 2021

… DATABASE DEVELOPMENT “A trainer in a great tradition”, said de Havilland Canada in a 1946 brochure, and so it proved to be … the British parent firm recognised that the stalwart Tiger Moth, having been training pilots for nearly a …

By Ben Dunnell 29th October 2021

… made for an adventurous life for the founder of the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine KEY/BEN DUNNELL Many a good idea has … hostelry and proposed forming a nine-ship team of de Havilland Tiger Moths, little did he imagine that the result …

By Tara Leggett 15th February 2022

… female pilots were restricted to flying and delivering Tiger Moth light aircraft. However, when the aerial war began … known by those closest to her – had learned to fly in a de Havilland Gypsy Moth at the Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club. …

By Ben Dunnell 30th November 2021

… sums for the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, de Havilland Aircraft Museum and Duxford Aviation Society among … FA2 ZH798 taxiing at Leeds East Airport 23 The Swiss ‘Tiger Hunter’, Hunter T68 J-4206/HB-RVV, is grounded at the …

By DARREN HARBAR 19th August 2021

… that hadn’t been seen since the 1930s, a special group of Tiger Moths took to the air this year, reveals Darren Harbar … sight of an RAF Central Flying School (CFS) aerobatic team de Havilland (DH) Tiger Moth has become commonplace in the skies …

22nd September 2020

… De Havilland started the 1930s with a reliable training aircraft … ) explains in this video, was the result: the famous Tiger Moth. Incredibly successful and utilised by the RAF largely …

21st July 2021

… Norvigie F-PGCD were among the participants, along with a de Havilland Tiger Moth and a DHC-1 Chipmunk. Visitors also had the …

21st July 2021

… reached a speed of Mach 1.38 after being dropped from a de Havilland Mosquito was ignored. Data on the M.52 including … was potentially flyable even by someone more used to a Tiger Moth. This theory was put to the test on July 22, 1966 …

By ARTHUR W. J. G. ORD-HUME 10th September 2020

… First flown five years into the life of Geoffrey de Havilland’s eponymous company, the DH60 Moth showed the … on the later Moth designs including the DH60 and DH82A Tiger Moth. Its principal benefit was the diminution of …

24th April 2021

… A group of volunteers known as ‘Ratones de Hangar’ works tirelessly to maintain the aviation history … the jewels of the museum’s collection  ANTONIO BILHOTO The Tiger Moth restoration is entering the painting phase, … BILHOTO  Two volunteers of the AAMA team working on a de Havilland Gipsy III engine “There is a lot of material …