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The Moths were a series of light aircraft, sports planes and military trainers designed by Geoffrey de Havilland. Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, ( 27 July 1882 – 21 May In the late 1920s and 1930s they were the most common civil aircraft flying in Britain and during that time every light aircraft flying in the UK was commonly referred to as a 'Moth', regardless if it was de Havilland-built or not. The de Havilland Aircraft Company (less commonly spelled de Haviland was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey

The first Moth was the DH.60: a straight-winged biplane two-seater. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A biplane is a Fixed-wing aircraft with two main Wings The first powered heavier-than-air Aircraft, the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer To enable storing the plane in small spaces, the DH. 60's wings could fold backwards against the fuselage. "Like a moth" remarked Geoffrey de Havilland, an avid lepidopterist and so the plane was nicknamed Moth from the drawingboard on. A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects studies or simply observes (see Butterfly watching) lepidopterans, members of an order encompassing

First variations of the name began with changes in the engine used for the DH. 60: Variants with a Cirrus Hermes, Armstrong Siddeley Genet and de Havilland Gipsy engine became Hermes Moth, Genet Moth and Gipsy Moth respectingly. The Cirrus Major started life as a development of the original Cirrus series of Aircraft engines which progressed through a number of variants Cirrus I II & III WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Design and development Just like the ADC Cirrus the Gipsy was born as a collaboration between aircraft manufacturer Geoffrey de Havilland and engine designer Frank (The original ADC Cirrus powered DH. Cirrus Engine (Cirrus Aero Engines Limited was a British Aircraft engine manufacturer known for their line of 4-cylinder air-cooled vertical inline engines for 60 retroactively became the Cirrus Moth. ) As the DH. 60 became more and more popular, de Havilland decided to cash in on the fame of the original by giving each of his new designs a name ending with Moth.

First of them was the DH.61: a giant 5-passenger biplane aptly called Giant Moth. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Other Moths include the Leopard Moth and Hornet Moth cabin biplanes, the Puss Moth cabin monoplane and the Moth Minor low-wing two-seater. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The most famous of the moths however, if nothing then for sheer numbers, is the DH.82 Tiger Moth: a biplane trainer used during World War II in Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations and the aircraft on which all World war II RAF pilots learned to fly. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

A more detailed list of the various de Havilland aircraft using the name Moth is given below:


The prototype of the DH.84 Dragon light passenger plane was originally called Dragon Moth, but later the 'moth' in its name was dropped as the plane was a civil airliner and the name 'moth' was to be used for sportsplanes only. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

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