De Havilland DH.84 Dragon

The de Havilland DH.84 Dragon was a small twin-engined biplane airliner of the 1930s, designed and built by the de Havilland company as a larger development of its single-engined Fox Moth. Hillman's Airways asked for the twin and received the first of five early aircraft, which began a London to Paris service in 1933 carrying six passengers on very modest fuel consumption. The design used a plywood box fuselage with the same type of engine and similar outer wing panels as the Fox Moth, and the outer wings could be folded for storage. From the 63rd aircraft the Dragon 2 added individually framed windows and faired undercarriage struts, which gave a little more speed, payload and range. British production ended at 115 aircraft, but the Royal Australian Air Force later ordered 87 more from a line at Bankstown for use as navigation trainers, bringing the total to 202.