The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation. Developed by Geoffrey de Havilland and flown for the first time on October 26 1931, the biplane became the most important elementary trainer used by Commonwealth forces. More than 1,000 Tiger Moths were delivered before WWII, and subsequently around 4,000 were built in the UK with an extra 2,000 being manufactured in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Following the end of WWII, pilots could buy and modify a Tiger Moth for recreational use or agricultural crop spraying and use it relatively cheaply. This, combined with its popularity within the aero club movement, provided employment for the Tiger Moths until the late fifties when the more modern closed cockpit aircraft began to force them into retirement.

This new edition provides a comprehensive account of the aircraft's origins and its development as a trainer of Commonwealth pilots in times of peace and war. It also looks at some of the other roles which this versatile little aeroplane performed such as a crop duster, glider tug, aerial advertiser, bomber, coastal patrol plane and aerial ambulance. Technical narrative and drawings, handling ability and performance as seen through the eyes of the pilots combine to make The Tiger Moth Story the most comprehensive book of the aircraft.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Sir Alan J. Cobham KBE AFC
• Author’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The Family Tree
• 2 Birth of the Tiger
• 3 The Colourful Thirties
• 4 Growing Up
• 5 The Fighting Tigers
• 6 Tigers in Training
• 7 The Post-War Tiger
• 8 The Tiger Changes its Stripes
• I Leading particulars of DH 82a Tiger Moth
• II Tiger Moth-equipped Service and Reserve Flying Schools 1937–1954
  • Pre-War Elementary and Reserve Flying Training Schools at August 1939
  • Wartime Elementary Flying Training Schools within the Empire Training Scheme
  • Post-War Reserve Flying Schools
  • University Air Squadrons
• III Summary of Production of New Tiger Moths DH 82b Queen Bee Production
• IV List of registrations of DH 82 and 82a Tiger Moths constructed by the de Havilland Company in Great Britain and other factories abroad
• World survey of all known existing Tiger Moth aircraft, January 2005
• V Pilot’s Notes for World War II Tiger Moth
• Plate Section