Captain de Havilland's MothA nostalgic celebration of the golden age of aviation The world's most iconic light aircraft, the DH60 Moth, was the brainchild of Geoffrey de Havilland, a genius son of an angry and disappointed Victorian clergyman. A successful designer of military aircraft, Geoffrey dreamed of doing for aircraft what the Model T had done for cars. The emergence of his Moth in February 1925 marked the beginning of a craze for flying that gripped a war weary world