Aeroplane Monthly 1985-04
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R.Riding - De Havilland D.H.53 /British pre-war ultralights/ (49)
The unregistered G-EBHX at Lympne in October 1923 with its wings detached and clipped to the fuselage for the transport tests.
Six RAF D.H.53s at the RAF Pageant at Hendon in 1925.
Desmond Penrose flying Shuttleworth's ABC Scorpion-powered D.H.53 G-EBHX in 1974.
The two prototype D.H.53s at Lympne in October 1923 with Sylvia II, later G-EBHZ, nearer the camera.
A Sign of the Times: A batch of 12 D.H.53 light 'planes coming through the shops at Stag Lane.
D.H.53 G-EBQP was destroyed in a crash at Hamble on July 21, 1934.
This D.H.53 was owned for a while by the Tellus Super Vacuum Cleaner Company Ltd. It was scrapped in 1930.
Mr. R. W. Knight, who won the Landing Competition in his D.53 ("Cherub").
G-EBRK crashed at Duxford in 1932.
This is the D.H.53 monoplane (Bristol "Cherub" engine), owned by the R.A.E. Club at Farnborough, who have reconditioned it to the extent that only the wings, engine, etc., were not built by them.
D.H.53 G-EBXN survived until 1940 when it was destroyed in a hangar fire.
Representing the RAF at the 1925 Lord Mayor's Show was D.H.53 J7272, later G-EBTT, being towed through London on a trailer.
de Havilland D.H.53