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• A U.S., twin-engine airliner designed by Douglas Aircraft Company Incorporated and produced from 1936 to 1954
• Usually seated twenty-one passengers and two crew but could carry up to thirty-two passengers
• Developed in 1935 as a derivative of the DC-2 and could carry fourteen berths (for overnight flights)
• Became one of the most successful airliners of all time, revolutionizing air transport for decades
• Served with airline companies and military forces around the world
• 16,000 DC-3s were manufactured primarily as military transport planes (5,400 in the U.S.S.R. and Japan)
• More than 500 listed in the U.S. and Canadian civil aircraft register
• First flight was on December 17, 1935