De Havilland Puss Moth

what is it?

The de Havilland DH.80A Puss Moth is a British three-seater high-wing monoplane aeroplane designed and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company between 1929 and 1933. It flew at a speed approaching 124 mph (200 km/h), making it one of the highest-performance private aircraft of its era. It was named after the puss moth (pronounced , puuss), a species of Eurasian woodland moth.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.2 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 206 km/htop speed
• seats 2passengers
• size 930 kgmax take-off weight
• built 284made in total

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 97 years ago, in 1929.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11.2 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

1929-09-09

introduced

1930

number built

284

role

light utility aircraft

makers

de Havilland Aircraft Company

engines

1× de Havilland Gipsy III

crew

1

passengers

2

length

7.6 m

wingspan

11.2 m

height

2.1 m

max take-off weight

930 kg

top speed

206 km/h

range

—

ceiling

5,334 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.