Douglas DC-3

Douglas Aircraft Company

The technology that combined to make the DC-3 an unbeatable success

22nd May 2025

The DC-3 was initially developed as a widened sleeper version of the successful DC-2 airliner, being called the Douglas Sleeper Transport or DST. Reconfigured as a straight airliner with 21 passenger seats, rather than 14-16 sleeper berths, it became the ‘Douglas Commercial Three’.

Douglas Aircraft Company

The technology that combined to make the DC-3 an unbeatable success

22nd May 2025

Basler BT-67

Basler completes 70th DC-3 conversion

29th April 2025

The 70th Douglas DC-3/C-47 variant to be upgraded by Basler Turbo Conversions has been completed

Aeroplane February 2025

C-53 Skytrooper entregado al American GI Museum

28th January 2025

El Douglas C-53D Skytrooper 42-68745 ha llegado al Museum of the American GI en College Station, Texas.

Aeroplane February 2025

C-53 Skytrooper delivered to American GI Museum

28th January 2025

Douglas C-53D Skytrooper 42-68745 has arrived at the Museum of the American GI at College Station in Texas.

Aeroplane December 2024

Floatplane DC-3 flies again

5th December 2024

Douglas DC-3 floatplane N130Q made its first water landing for 20 years at Moosehead Lake, north-western Maine on 14 September, with Tunison Foundation pilots Eric Zipkin and Garrett Fleishman in the left and right-hand seats respectively.

Aeroplane December 2024

D-Day ‘Dak’ flies hurricane relief sorties

22nd November 2024

Tim Savage’s Vintage Flying Machines Douglas DC-3 operated a series of Hurricane Helene humanitarian relief flights

Douglas DC-3

Final Lelystad flight for DDA DC-3

20th September 2024

The last DDA Classic Airlines passenger flights from the Aviodrome at Lelystad Airport with its Douglas DC-3 were flown on August 25, 2024.

Douglas DC-3

South Africa retires Turbo Dakotas

26th June 2024

While it has yet to be formally announced by the South African Air Force (SAAF), the air arm has decided to retire its surviving fleet of World War Two-era C-47TP Turbo Dakota light transports after 81 years of service.

Argentina

DC-3 taxies in return to the sky project

9th May 2024

Douglas DC-3 LV-BEH completed a series of taxi runs on March 9 and 10 at an EAA convention in Argentina. It’s the latest step in the project to return the 1943-built aircraft to the skies.