de Havilland Chipmunk
The de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk is a tandem two-seat primary trainer designed by de Havilland Aircraft of Canada at Downsview, Toronto, as the successor to the Tiger Moth biplane. First flown on 22 May 1946, it was de Havilland Canada's first indigenous design and the first Canadian-designed aircraft to be built abroad under licence. Production, as the sources scope it, was 217 aircraft in Canada, the last delivered in 1956; 1,000 built under licence by de Havilland in Britain; and 66 licence-built by OGMA in Portugal. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum totals those accountings as 1,283 aircraft produced between 1946 and 1958, while Wikipedia gives 1,284 for the same three lines. The Chipmunk trained pilots for the RCAF, the RAF and other Commonwealth and foreign air forces, and RAF aircraft flew air-cadet Air Experience Flights until 1996. Many survive in private hands, hundreds are reported still airworthy, and a few remain in military service with British historic flights and, as of 2018, the Portuguese Air Force.