DEHAVILLAND Aircraft For Lease

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Geoffrey de Havilland founded the De Havilland Aircraft Company in 1920 in England. In 1925, the company released the Moth, a biplane model De Havilland would follow up on with the Fox Moth and later the WWII-era Mosquito light bomber. Purchased by Hawker Siddeley in 1960, De Havilland eventually became part of the British aerospace and defense company BAE Systems.

In 1928, De Havilland formed the de Havilland Canada Aircraft subsidiary in Toronto to manufacturer the Moth, including for the Royal Canadian Air Force. After WWII, the company designed and manufactured numerous designs, including variants of the bush and commuter aircraft DHC-1 Chipmunk, DHC-2 Beaver, DHC-3 Otter, DHC-4 Caribou, DHC-5 Buffalo, DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-7 Dash 7, and DHC-8 Dash 8. After Boeing acquired the company in the mid-1980s, it sold De Havilland to Bombardier in the early 1990s. Bombardier eventually sold rights to the DHC-1 through DHC-7 to Viking Air.

Bombardier still produces the Q400 twin-engine turboprop, a descendant of the Dash 8 that entered service in 2000 within Bombardier’s Q-Series family. Bombardier ended production of Q-100, Q-200, and Q-300 Dash 8 models in the mid-2000s.