10/31/2009. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The Queen Bee was an expendable radio controlled target aircraft developed to the 1933 Air Ministry Specification 18/33. It combined the fuselage of the D.H.60G III Moth Major with all other components from the D.H.82 Tiger Moth. It could be flown by a pilot from the first cockpit, while the radio equipment was fitted in the rear cockpit.

First conventional flight was on January 5, 1935, the radio control development started in June 1935. The Air Ministry ordered a total of 420 Queen Bee to Specification 20/35, 320 were contracted to de Havilland and 100 to Scottish Aviation Ltd. (SAL), deliveries were completed in July 1944.

On a sub-contract basis for SAL, sixty of the 100 SAL Queen Bee contract were manufactured in the City of Glasgow, by the furniture manufacturers H. Morris & Co. Ltd., with the West of Scotland Furniture Co. of Beith as principal co-manufacturer.

The aircraft were manufactured at the premises of the bus company SMT (Scottish Motor Traction) at 39 West Campbell Street, when completed the aircraft were delivered in Morris furniture trucks. Morris also manufactured the Queen Bee floats and propellers.

One of the last aircraft of the SAL contract, this Queen Bee was delivered to the RAF with s/n LF858 in 1944, and came on the civil register as G-BLUZ on April 9, 1985."