DH.87 Hornet Moth | |
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General information | |
Type | Trainer and Tourer |
Manufacturer | de Havilland |
Status | In limited service |
Primary user | private owner pilots |
Number built | 164 |
History | |
Manufactured | 1935–1938 |
First flight | 9 May 1934 |
The de Havilland DH.87 Hornet Moth is a single-engined cabin biplane designed by the de Havilland Aircraft Company in 1934 as a potential replacement for its highly successful de Havilland Tiger Moth trainer. Although its side-by-side two-seat cabin made it closer in configuration to the modern aircraft that military trainee pilots would later fly, there was no interest from the RAF and the aircraft was put into production for private buyers.