File:De Havilland DH80A Puss Moth ‘VH-UQB’ (really G-ABDW) (25990180858).jpg
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c/n 2051. Built 1930. The Puss Moth first flew in September 1929 and was a popular three seat design with a closed cabin, using a steel-tube fabric-covered fuselage. Some 284 were built, but sadly the type only survives today in single figures. It was replaced by the DH85 Leopard Moth, which had a similar layout but used a lighter, wooden, fuselage. Despite only 133 bring built, the Leopard Moth is a slightly more common type these days. Initially registered as G-ABDW in 1930, this Puss Moth immediately made an intrepid 4 week flight to her new owners in Australia. She spent her entire flying career in Australia, before being returned to the British register, again as ‘G-ABDW’, in March 1977. She became part of Sir William Roberts collection at Strathallan, but never flew again and to this day retains her ‘Marshall Airways’ colour scheme and carries her old Australian registration. I have stated in my title that she is “really G-ABDW” because that was the last civil registration that she was officially allocated. She is on display in the Civil Aviation Hangar at the National Museum of Flight (part of National Museums Scotland). East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian, Scotland. 13th September 2017 From the museum website:- The Puss Moth was a three-seat light aircraft built between 1929 and 1933. The wings could be folded for storage and it was claimed that the aircraft could fit into a domestic garage. Scotsman Jim Mollison made the first solo east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air, and the first east-west crossing of the south Atlantic by air. Both record flights were in a Puss Moth. This Puss Moth was flown to Australia in 1930. The flight from Croydon (England) to Darwin (Australia) took 4 weeks, 4 days and 4 hours.” |
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| Author | Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK |
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