De Havilland DH.61 Giant Moth

The de Havilland DH.61 Giant Moth was a large single-engined British biplane transport of the 1920s, built by de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome and intended mainly for use in Australia, with a number also shipped to Canada. After the success of the DH.50J in Australia the company was asked to design a larger replacement around the Bristol Jupiter engine, and the aircraft took only ten weeks to design. The prototype first flew in December 1927; its cabin held six to eight passengers with the pilot in an open cockpit behind the wings. Ten aircraft were built in all, one of them in Canada from components. The prototype, called Canberra, flew scheduled services between Adelaide and Broken Hill and was used in a search for a missing aircraft. Sir Alan Cobham flew another Giant Moth on a 21-week tour of the United Kingdom in 1929 that visited 110 towns and took 40,000 passengers aloft.