Your blogmeister doesn't know a whole heckuvalot about the de Havilland D.H.86 Express, just that it was a forerunner of the more well-known and slightly more graceful'n smarter-lookin' D.H.89 Dragon Rapide.
This particular example was built as a D.H.86A in 1936, but converted to a D.H.86B later that same year, evidenced mainly by the 'auxiliary fins' fitted to the tips of the horizontal tail surfaces. She was owned and operated with the civil registration G-AEJM by Wrightways, Ltd. of Croydon until her transfer to 24 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in April of 1940, when her identity was changed to X9441. Sadly, she would be written off after an engine fire during startup at RAF Hendon in February of 1943.
Anyhoo, cheerio, and enjoy...
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