Gipsy Minor | |
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de Havilland Gipsy Minor at the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre | |
Type | Piston inline aero-engine |
Manufacturer | de Havilland Engine Company |
First run | 1937 |
Major applications |
de Havilland Moth Minor Short Scion |
Number built | 171 |
Developed from | de Havilland Gipsy |
The de Havilland Gipsy Minor or Gipsy Junior was a British four-cylinder, air-cooled, inline engine used primarily in the de Havilland Moth Minor monoplane, both products being developed in the late 1930s.
The engine was a simplified and smaller version of the earlier de Havilland Gipsy. It featured only one magneto where dual ignition was normal for the Gipsy series of engines. A total of 171 engines were produced, including 100 built in Australia, production moving to that country due to the start of the Second World War.
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