DEHAVILLAND

De Havilland was a British aviation manufacturer established in 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome Edgware on the outskirts of north London. The company later moved to Hatfield in Hertfordshire. De Havilland was known for its innovation and was responsible for producing a number of important aircraft, including the Moth biplane that revolutionized aviation in the 1920s, the 1930s Fox Moth – a commercial light passenger aircraft, the wooden World War II Mosquito multi-role aircraft, and the pioneering passenger jet airliner Comet. In 1960, the company became a member of the Hawker Siddeley group, but lost its separate identity in 1963 after merging with Hawker Siddeley. Today, the de Havilland name lives on in de Havilland Canada, which owns the rights to the name and the aircraft produced by de Havilland’s former Canadian subsidiary, including the Dash 8 regional airliner previously produced by Bombardier Aerospace.