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de Havilland DH.60 Moth
Državi	Uk
Razred	Trener
Prvi let	22. februar 1925
Zgrajena	Neznano

V de Havilland DH.60 Moth is a 1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft that was developed into a series of aircraft by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. The DH.60 was developed from the larger DH.51 biplane. The first flight of the Cirrus powered prototype DH.60 Moth (registration G-EBKT) was carried out by Geoffrey de Havilland at the works airfield at Stag Lane on 22 February 1925. The Moth was a two-seat biplane of wooden construction, it had a plywood covered fuselage and fabric covered surfaces, a standard tailplane with a single tailplane and fin. A useful feature of the design was its folding wings which allowed owners to hangar the aircraft in much smaller spaces. The then Secretary of State for Air Sir Samuel Hoare became interested in the aircraft and the Air Ministry subsidised five flying clubs and equipped them with Moths.

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V de Havilland DH.60 Moth is a two-seat biplane that was designed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer de Havilland in the 1920s. It was one of the most popular and successful light aircraft of its era, and was used for various purposes such as training, touring, sport flying, and military service. The Moth was based on the earlier de Havilland DH.51, but featured a smaller and lighter airframe, a more powerful engine, and a folding wing mechanism that allowed it to be stored in a standard garage. The Moth was also the first aircraft to use the de Havilland Gipsy engine, a reliable and economical inverted inline four-cylinder engine that became the standard powerplant for many de Havilland designs. The Moth was produced in several variants, such as the DH.60G Gipsy Moth, the DH.60M Metal Moth, the DH.60T Moth Trainer, and the DH.60X Moth Major.
Moth je bil izvožen v številne države in so ga upravljale različne civilne in vojaške organizacije, vključno s Kraljevimi letalskimi silami, Kraljevimi kanadskimi letalskimi silami in letalskim korpusom vojske Združenih držav. Moth so leteli tudi številni znani letalci, kot so Amy Johnson, ki je leta 1930 samostojno letela z Gipsy Mothom iz Anglije v Avstralijo, in Charles Kingsford Smith, ki je leta 1928 uporabil Gipsy Moth za prvi trans-Tasmanski let. Moth je bilo vsestransko in trpežno letalo, ki je lahko dobro delovalo v različnih pogojih in okoljih. Pohvalili so ga zaradi enostavnega upravljanja, stabilnosti in zmogljivosti, mnogi piloti pa so ga imeli za veselje leteti. Moth je vplival tudi na razvoj letalstva, saj je pomagal popularizirati letenje kot hobi in šport ter navdihnil številne druge modele lahkih letal. Moth je bil v proizvodnji do leta 1933, ko ga je nadomestil de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth. Vendar pa so številni molji ostali v uporabi še desetletja po tem, nekateri pa še danes letijo kot cenjena starinska letala.