Frederick Jones bought a Bleriot Type XI while on a business trip in England. It arrived at Port Adelaide in February 1910. Bill Wittber was employed to assemble it and while he was doing taxiing tests at Bolivar on Sunday 13 March 1910, it took to the air for a brief time (about 40ft at 5ft in the air).

Geoffrey de Havilland, was a passionate, lifelong amateur lepidopterist (someone who studies butterflies and moths). He named his first light biplane the DH.60 Moth because when he saw the design on the drawing board, he remarked that it folded its wings 'like a moth'. De Havilland decided to name many of his aircraft after moths - such as the Gipsy Moth, Tiger Moth, Puss Moth, and Fox Moth etc. The dragon names were reserved for larger, twin-engined civilian transports and airliners like the DH.84 Dragon.