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what is it?
The DH.83 Fox Moth is a small biplane passenger aircraft from the 1930s powered by a single de Havilland Gipsy Major I inline inverted engine, manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. The aircraft was designed late in 1931 as a low-cost, light passenger aircraft. Many components, including the engine, tailplane, fin, rudder, and wings were identical to those of the de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth, then being built in large quantities.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.4 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 94 years ago, in 1932.
- Wingspan of 9.4 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1932-01-29
- introduced
- 1932
- number built
- 155
- role
- passenger aircraft
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- makers
- de Havilland Aircraft Company
- engines
- 1× de Havilland Gipsy III
- crew
- 1
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 9.4 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 907 kg
- top speed
- 171 km/h
- cruise speed
- 146 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 3,871 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1050433, Wikipedia: De Havilland Fox Moth (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.