Struck off register for the second and final time in 1947. Photo from: State Library of South Australia

Owned by Richard Shuttleworth from new (first registered on 23 January 1932) and still currently airworthy with the Shuttleworth Collection in 2023.

Built in 1928 and still actively performing. Returning to land back on the Old Warden grass after completing its display at a Shuttleworth Trust Air Show.

Cancelled from the register in 1942. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Lt Cdr Henry MacDonald setting off on a planned non-stop flight to de Havilland's base in Stag Lane, UK. Spotted by a steamer 7½ hours into flight but then vanished without trace. A few months earlier at Stag Lane G-EBWV, which had been built specifically for endurance flights, had remained aloft for 24 hours. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Owned by Richard Shuttleworth from new (first registered on 23 January 1932) and still currently airworthy with the Shuttleworth Collection in 2022.

Operated by Western Canada Airways from its base at Hudson, then an important transport hub during the Red Lake gold rush of the 1920s. G-CAIG crashed at Winnipeg on June 16, 1928, when being operated as a seaplane. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Seen carrying advertising for a magazine, this Moth had an interesting subsequent career. Bought by the Swedish state, it arrived in Svalbard by ship on 2 July 1928 to take part in the rescue efforts following the crash of the airship Italia. Its commander Umberto Nobile had been rescued by a Swedish Fokker C.V, but that plane crashed during its next landing on the survivors' ice floe. Flying the lighter Moth, Birger Schyberg managed to pick up the C.V's pilot, Lt Einar Lundberg. The Moth then served in the Swedish air force until a crash in 1930. After an extensive rebuild it flew as SE-ADZ until 1950.

VH-UAH flew with Kingsford Smith Flying School from 1934 to 1941. During this time it suffered two significant accidents. The wreckage was sold after the second, at Ettalong Beach on November 13, 1941, with the intention UAH be rebuilt. It never was. When it was placed on floats is not known. The photo is over Botany Bay, which adjoins what was then Mascot airport and is now Sydney International Airport.

Finland has summers! The Finnish State Aircraft Factory built 21 Moths for the Finnish air force in 1929-30 with the old Cirrus engine. MO-103 was soon demobbed as K-SILD / OH-ILD. It ended up as far away as Australia as VH-SSC - see David Carter's 1979 photo. Photo from: Helsinki City Museum

Rebuilt 1928 Moth which at one time operated as a floatplane. En-route from Stapleford (EGSG) to the de Havilland Moth Club Rally at Woburn Abbey. Taken from Tiger Moth G-AIDS. Sadly 'XU was sold in Spain as EC-KCY in 2006.

Current in 2019

Ex G-AUGJ. Was with the Royal Aero Club of NSW (and its predecessors) from the time it was registered in 1927 until it crashed in October 1940. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

RAAF aircraft A7-14 that was transferred in 1932 to the Civil Aviation Branch of the Defence Department, then responsible for civil aviation. Crashed in 1933 and then struck off the register in 1934. Rebuilt by the RAAF and returned to the CAB in 1936. Sold to the RQAC in 1939 but a year later was back with the RAAF, impressed as A7-85. At some time in RQAC service swapped its Cirrus engine for a Gipsy. Photo from: State Library of Queensland