De Havilland Facts for Kids

De Havilland was a British aircraft manufacturer, founded in 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland. It was based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. De Havilland produced the first jet-powered passenger aircraft.

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Building Mosquito aircraft at the de Havilland factory in Hatfield, 1943
The first de Havilland DH106 Comet prototype at Hatfield in 1949, a symbol of the new technological age.
The de Havilland Biplane No. 2 or F.E.1 in flight, circa 1911
A de Havilland Airco DH9 on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 2008
A de Havilland DH 83 Fox Moth at Kemble Airport in 2003
1936 de Havilland DH87B Hornet Moth taking off at Kemble Air Day, Wiltshire, in 2008
A DH.89 Dragon Rapide of the Army Parachute Association at RAF Netheravon in 1968
De Havilland Hercules-66 Imperial Airways
ex RAAF DH.94 Moth Minor at Benalla Aviation Museum in June 2012
de Havilland Mosquito B 35 (reconfigured to a FB Mk.VI, on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum)
A de Havilland DH.104 Dove at Kemble in 2003
The de Havilland-designed HS.121 Trident 3 of British Airways at Manchester Airport in 1975
de Havilland Sea Vixen (G-CVIX) at an air show at Kemble in 2005
A Blue Streak missile at the Deutsches Museum at Oberschleissheim, Munich
C-FGYN Adlair Aviation Ltd. de Havilland Beaver (DHC2) Mk I on floats
Bombardier (de Havilland Canada) Dash 8 of Flybe
de Havilland Australia DHA.3 Drover 3B at Sydney (Bankstown) in 1970, where it was originally built
The interior of de Havilland New Zealand's aircraft factory at Rongotai, Wellington, in 1939 or 1940
Statue of de Havilland, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

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