In 1949, a larger, more powerful Super DC-3 was launched by Douglas Aircraft and garnered positive reviews. The airplane also had greater cargo capacity, and an improved wing, but with thousands ...

[Courtesy: dc3dakotahistory.org] Another DC-3 that was still in use decades after its debut. [Courtesy: skybrary.aero] In 1935, Douglas Aircraft was awarded the Collier Trophy for the DC-2.

The fuselage of an old and abandoned US Navy Douglas Super DC-3 provides an eerie accompaniment to the bright green and yellow lights. The empty aircraft seems to be looking out at the Aurora ...

Built by Douglas Aircraft, founded in 1921, the DC-3 incorporated breakthroughs developed at Douglas and Boeing—super-charged 1,200-horsepower twin engines, cantilevered metal wings, retractable ...

The DC-7 was the last piston-engine powered plane built by Douglas, and unlike the successful DC-3 and DC-6 ... service using its Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellations. Because commercial pilots ...

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven aircraft, and one that was introduced into a world of aviation that is very different to the one we know today. Since it made its very first flight in 1935 ...

The Douglas DC-3 was introduced in the 1930s, played a key role in World War II, and still flies commercially today. How has it endured? Jonathan Glancey investigates. Log in to a live flight ...

Meet Blake Butler, a volunteer pilot for the Douglas DC-3 aircraft based in Shelbyville, Tennessee. “This is the airplane that brought commercial aviation to where we are today,” Butler said.

"Lady Luck" is a retrofitted World War II era Douglas DC-3 cargo plane perched in the trees. The U.S. Marine Corps used the planes for military transport between Guam, Midway, and Pearl Harbor.