page_title: De Havilland Canada
section_title: DHC-1 Chipmunk
hierarchical_section_title: De Havilland Canada / Post-war era / DHC-1 Chipmunk
caption_attribution_description: I took this image on Sunday, June 17, 2007 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is for use in the n:Wikinews reporter attends warplane airshow in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada article.
context_page_description: De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. is an aircraft manufacturer with facilities based in the Downsview area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The original home of de Havilland Canada was the home of the Canadian Air and Space Museum located in what is now Downsview Park.
  The aircraft company was created in 1928 by the British de Havilland Aircraft Company to build Moth aircraft for the training of Canadian airmen, and subsequently after the Second World War, designed and produced indigenous designs.
  In the 1980s, the government of Canada privatized DHC and in 1986 sold the aircraft company to then Seattle-based Boeing. DHC was eventually acquired by Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace in 1992.
  In 2006, Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia purchased the type certificates for all the original out-of-production de Havilland designs.
  In November 2018, Viking Air's holding company, Longview Aviation Capital, announced the acquisition of the Q400 program, along with the rights to the de Havilland name and trademark.
context_section_description: The first true postwar aviation project was the DHC-1 Chipmunk, designed as a primary trainer, a replacement for the venerable de Havilland Tiger Moth. The Chipmunk was an all-metal, low-wing, tandem two-place, single-engined airplane with a conventional tail-wheel landing gear. It had fabric-covered control surfaces and a clear plastic canopy covering the pilot and passenger/student positions. The production versions of the airplane were powered by a 145-hp, in-line de Havilland Gipsy Major "8" engine.
  The Chipmunk prototype first flew on 22 May 1946 in Toronto and had a total production run of 158  for RCAF use, while de Havilland (UK) produced 740 airplanes for training at various RAF and University Air Squadrons during the late 1940s and into the 1950s.  The DHC-1 Chipmunk was still being used as a training aircraft by the UK's Army Air Corps until 1995.
  As of October 2011, the Chipmunk was in service with the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and RN Historic Flight, and is used to train pilots to fly "taildraggers" as a prerequisite to flying the flight's Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes. All of the RAF's modern aircraft have tricycle undercarriage, so pilots are unfamiliar with tail-wheel aircraft.
caption: A former RCAF Chipmunk
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