Military Bits & Pieces • 1944 de Havilland Dragon Rapide. 1944 de Havilland Dragon Rapide Is One Primitive Plane in Today’s Skies. Published: 30 Jan 2021, 08:45 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu.

MUKILTEO — One of the rarest aircraft in the world recently landed at Paine Field’s Historic Flight Foundation in Mukilteo. The museum added a 1930s-era airliner, the de Havilland Dragon Rapide.

The museum bid to the RAF Museum for G-AHED, a de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide built in 1946 which spent most of its working life operating civilian charters.

THE Air Ministry has acquired a De Havilland Dragon Rapide and an Avro Ava, two well-known commercial types of aircraft, for R.A.F. use. Such purchases indicate two possible lines of attack on the ...

The de Havilland Dragon Rapide was designed in the 1930s. It was drafted into action during World War II to be used for training and communications missions. Related articles ...

The 1943 de Havilland Dragon Rapide was being used for short commercial flights ahead of an air show display at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on 19 June. A report by the Air Accident Investigations ...

EXPERIENCE the flight of a lifetime in a 1930s' biplane at this year's News Shopper-sponsored Biggin Hill International Air Fair.

MERVYN Hitchcock was one of three men who pulled Des Porter to safety from the wreckage of his father's destroyed de Havilland Dragon Rapide in 1954. Mr Hitchcock, then a 27-year-old farmer, had ...

The 1930s de Havilland Dragon Rapide bi-plane had just finished a pleasure flight before the start of the main air show display at Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday.

The 1943 de Havilland Dragon Rapide was being used for short commercial flights ahead of an air show display at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on 19 June.