A new documentary revisits the Odyssey DC-3's 1986 flight around the world for Expo 86 and the aircraft's homecoming to ...

Today's Top Pick is a 1943 Douglas DC-3, highlighted for its historical significance as the first truly practical, profitable airliner and its enduring adaptable design. This specific DC-3 has been ...

Perhaps the most important aircraft in the history of commercial aviation was the Douglas DC-3. This year will mark the 90 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the DC-3. On June 25, 1936, ...

The video follows a taxi test of a scale Douglas DC-3 and C-47 RC aircraft, focusing on ground handling, control response, ...

Apart from perhaps the first airplane to ever take to the sky, the Douglas DC-3 and its military counterpart, the C-47 Skytrain, are quite possibly the most important aircraft to have ever flown.

When you visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, and at its Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, you expect to see relics of a bygone era. From the original ...

A Douglas DC-3 shown in flight. * Photo: Corbis * 1935: The Douglas DC-3 makes its maiden flight at Clover Field in Santa Monica, California. Despite a production history lasting only 11 years, it ...

One of Catalina Flying Boats’ historic DC-3 aircraft flew over Long Beach Airport Wednesday afternoon for what amounted to an aerial farewell before its final departure. The company, which hauls mail ...

Click to open image viewer. First flown in 1935, the Douglas DC-3 became the most successful airliner in the formative years of air transportation, and was the first to fly profitably without ...

In late 1938, the revolutionary DC-3 plane departed Newark Airport for Glendale, California. Nigel Cox On an early evening in late 1938, a gleaming American Airlines DC-3 departed Newark Airport, ...

I think it’s safe to say that, in our day and time, air travel dominates the transportation industry of the world, with tens of thousands of airplanes of various shapes and sizes moving billions of ...