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The de Havilland Aircraft
Association of South Africa
The de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth
de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth c/n 1124 ZS-ABI South African Airways. Photograph: South African Airways Museum Society Archives.
The only bi-plane ever operated by SAA was a single de Havilland DH60G Gipsy Moth. ZS-ABI was taken over from Union Airways in 1934. The aircraft carried one passenger. SAA used it for non-scheduled work. Union Airways operated five of the type, two of which had enclosed cockpits.
de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth c/n 829 ZS-ABO. Photograph: South African Airways Museum Society Archives (Alan Eggeling via Jon Sargeant).
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de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth II c/n 1849 ZS-ADB. Photograph: South African Airways Museum Society Archives (via Victor Smith)
de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth c/n 842 ZS-ABA
Registered to The Johannesburg Light Plane Club and named "Maryland"
At Baragwanath Airfield
With Junkers A50 Junior ZS-ABV c/n 3511 and Avro 594 Avian II ZS-AAN c/n 124
Photograph: Stewart Fritz Johl via Tinus le Roux