de Havilland
The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to the Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA). De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane Aerodrome in Edgware, near London. The company later moved to Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire. Initially, de Havilland concentrated on single and two-seat biplanes, essentially continuing the DH line of aircraft built by Airco, but powered by de Havilland's own Gipsy engines. The high-performance designs and wooden construction methods culminated in the Mosquito of WW2. The Vampire jet fighter and trainer flew in 1943. After the war, the most important product was the first jet airliner, the Comet, but structural failures limited its success. In 1948 a large factory at Chester was taken over from Vickers-Armstrongs and produced a succession of de Havilland aircraft. de Havilland Holdings was the parent company by 1955, and was purchased by the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1960, with a de Havilland Division until 1965.
De Havilland U-6a Beaver The U-6A (known as the L-20A until 1962) was manufactured by DeHavilland Aircraft of Canada LTD. Be...
De Havilland Venom FB4 This is an ex Swiss AF Venom. the FB designation indicates it was used in the Fighter/bomber role, t...
De Havilland Mosquito TT35 An unusual variant of the "Mozzie" this one was used as a target towing tug!! You have to admit, its...
De Havilland Comet 1A One of the first production Comets. This is at RAF Cosford, and I still think it looks good compared...
De Havilland Dove RAF Cosford's fine example of this pretty aircraft. There are still quite a number of these planes f...
De Havilland Dove The original PH-MAD as used by Martins Air Charter for flight trips over Amsterdam in the sixties at...
Sea-Devon C-20 Sea-Devon C-20 XK895 from the Culdrose Station-Flight, Royal-Navy. Seen during the Schleswig-Jagel o...
Vampire South Africa Vampire. This example belongs to the SAAF museum.
Classic Canadian Regional Plane A picture of 'Classic Canadian Regional Plane, Dash-8 (C-GJSV), of Air Canada's 'Jazz', and I believ...
BEA de Havilland Dragon Rapide This is a photo of the British European Airways - Dragon Rapide.
On the back of the photo it says: ...
Photo of DeHavilland Beaver, Nova Scotia, Canada Nova Scotia Department of Land & Forests DeHavilland Beaver, CF-UCU, water bomber docked at Liverpoo...
N88XD de Havilland D.H-88 Comet - replica N88XD de Havilland D.H-88 "Comet" (REPLICA), 1993,
S/N T-7. Photo @ Watsonville Airport, California...
