de Havilland DH-80 Puss Moth

Looks gorgeous Milton.

I couldn't help myself. The anticipation of this being released is exciting.
 
I'm really exited about this plane. It looks absolutely stunning!
Jimmy Melrose needs an old headset though :kilroy:

R.
 
robcap said:
I'm really exited about this plane. It looks absolutely stunning!
Jimmy Melrose needs an old headset though :kilroy:

R.
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Hi Rob, We haven't decided what to do with him yet. We have applied the wife's makeup, changed his hair color and taken away his sunglasses in another version. I will likely lose the headset. :icon_lol:

If anyone has an appropriate (for the era) low-poly private pilot model, I would be happy to entertain it. :kilroy:
 
I will just say thanks--what else can I say?-- to Milton and the team. This is a prestige plane.
Great job on the Moth from Oz, too!

looking forward to flying this one, oh yeah.

cheerio
brady
 
Milton;
Just out of curiosity, does the Canadian version CF-PEI, have anything to do with the Canadian province of PEI?. Just wondering as seeing as how I live in Charlottetown, PEI :bump:
 
A8877 De Havilland XDH-80
Puss Moth c/n 2187 purchased for use by US Naval Air Attache
in London. Impressed by RAF as HM534 (an earlier serial
allocation of DR630 was not taken up). Became G-AHLO
in May 1946 and went to Canada Oct 1969 as CF-PEI (later
C-FPEI). Now in Rockliffe Museum, Canada. Noted 2005 in Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg

and more here
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/PussMoth.htm
 
RL_201 said:
Milton;
Just out of curiosity, does the Canadian version CF-PEI, have anything to do with the Canadian province of PEI?. Just wondering as seeing as how I live in Charlottetown, PEI :bump:
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This livery is pattered after the one at the Canada Aviation Museum:

http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/deHavillandDH80APussMoth/


You can read about its history there. :) And thanks srgalahad for filling in more details.

And here are more:

2187 To Naval Attache, US Embassy, London with CofA 3106 issued 16.7.31. US Naval serial A8877 not carried externally. Based at Hendon and initially impressed 12.5.41 as DR630 but not taken up. Formally taken over 24.3.42, this time as HM534 and used by 24 Squadron, Hendon. To 5 MU Kemble 2.4.42. Issued to the Gunnery Research Unit, Exeter 4.9.42. To Gatwick for major inspection 25.7.43; to 5 MU Kemble 20.10.43. Issued to Vickers-Armstrong Aircraft Ltd, Castle Bromwich 27.10.43 and subsequently, on 21.3.44 to the CRD, Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. Returned to 5 MU Kemble 31.1.45 for disposal. Sold 4.46 to Autowork (Winchester) Ltd. Regd G-AHLO (CofR 10162) 1.5.46 to Autowork (Winchester) Ltd, Winchester. CofA 8000 issued 27.7.46. Cld 14.1.49 & regd 23.2.49 to Rudolph Petrus Potgeiter, High Wycombe (based Benson/Booker). Fitted with Gipsy Major on CofA renewal 28.3.50. CofR No changed to R2195 .50. Cld 6.6.54 & regd 5.7.54 to Central Aeronautical Bureau Ltd, London W1 (based Croydon). Cld 16.7.56 & regd 24.7.56 to Eric William Dunscombe, Richmond (based Croydon, later Biggin Hill). Cld 24.8.62 & regd 17.9.62 to Norman Herbert Jones t/a The Tiger Club, Redhill. Damaged in forced landing Omonville, 15 ml N of Cherbourg 5.5.63. Rebuilt Croydon and CofA renewed 14.4.67. Regn cld 26.9.69 as sold in Canada. Arrived Dalhousie, NB 11.69. Regd CF-PEI (2) .69 to Father John W MacGillivray (Chaplain of CFB Ottawa South), Petawawa, Ontario and reflown 24.1.70. Later based at CFB Summerside, PEI. Sold 5.76 to National Aeronautical Collection, Rockcliffe, On
 
2187 To Naval Attache, US Embassy, London with CofA 3106 issued 16.7.31. US Naval serial A8877 not carried externally.
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It'd be cool to see it in a period USN paint scheme.
 
Milton Shupe said:
This livery is pattered after the one at the Canada Aviation Museum:
"... sold in Canada. Arrived Dalhousie, NB 11.69. Regd CF-PEI (2) .69 to Father John W MacGillivray (Chaplain of CFB Ottawa South), Petawawa, Ontario and reflown 24.1.70. Later based at CFB Summerside, PEI. Sold 5.76 to National Aeronautical Collection, Rockcliffe, On
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and even more details...
Father John was a COPA member and pilot. He owned four aircraft during his lifetime, a De Havilland Tiger Moth which he donated to the EAA and is now in the Museum in Oshkosh; a Miles Hawk M2W; a De Havilland Puss Moth which was restored as a replica of CF-PEI an aircraft flown by one of Canada's female aviation pioneers, Louise Jenkins, and is now in our National Aviation Museum in Ottawa; and a Taylorcraft BC12D. Father John was a native of Nova Scotia and lived there in Antigonish during his retirement until his death in February, 1995."

http://www.copanational.org/DYKC1.cfm

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So, to answer Snowbird's question, this is the explanation of the registration of the original Puss Moth (CF-PEI):

"On Feb. 23, she made a record flight from Montreal to Charlottetown in four hours and forty minutes, flying her own Puss Moth with the call letters CF-PEI after she prevailed on Prime Minister R. B. Bennett to help her obtain the airplane registration “PEI” in honour of her adopted province. Louise became the first female licence pilot on P.E.I. when she received her Private Pilot Licence, PPL #973, on March 8, 1932."

http://www.cahs.com/NewsAndViews/PEINewsletter.htm

Father John was a dedicated member of the EAA and a strong supporter of historic aircraft.. His Tiger Moth is in the EAA Air Venture Museum in Oshkosh.

http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/de%20Havilland%20DH%2082C%20Tiger%20Moth.asp
:ernae:

Rob
(Note: Feb. 23, 1932 was 23 years to the day after the first powered flight in the British Commonwealth, and 16 years before my birthday... only one of these has any historical significance...:kilroy: )
 
The history is interesting for sure ... amazing challenges in uncertain conditions.

If all goes well, we should be able to release something this weekend.
 
this plane looks stunning. I've really grown into flying alot of the low and slow lately and using the high speed birds to entertain myaself with private airshows......
 
WahOO!!! With the race starting soon (not that I have time for it..or anything fun.) I figured after reading of the race info, you'd be in a push to get at least one of them out on the tarmac. The paints on them are most excellent.

Great news Milton
 
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