The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth, introduced in 1932, was a pivotal military trainer aircraft designed by Geoffrey de Havilland, known for being "easy to fly but difficult to master." It played a ...

LAKELAND -- The Tiger Moth airplane looks great, but it's the angry Woody Woodpecker painted on both sides of its nose that seems to amuse most of the people at Sun 'n Fun who stop by to check it out.

In my fifty-plus years of association with aviation, the best aeroplane I ever flew was undoubtedly the De Haviland Tiger Moth. As a young student pilot, I used to regularly fly the ‘Tiger’, operating ...