With a bit of a crosswind at play, pilot Jim Sells and co-pilot Mike Macario climbed aboard Yukon Sourdough—a 1942 Douglas C-47A converted to a DC-3C. What lay ahead? The return to service flight of ...

Ahead of the company's centennial, they're celebrating their history with a retro livery that recalls the days of the DC-3.

If the Ford Model T put America on wheels, then it's safe to say the Douglas DC-3 put America in the air. With more than 800 of the almost 11,000 DC-3s still flying, it truly qualifies as an icon of ...

December 17, 1935, saw the first flight of the Douglas Sleeper Transport, or DST, which marked the first variant of the DC-3 series. One last major offensive in World War II is worth reflection upon ...

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — 1937, the year an aviation icon was born – the Flagship Detroit. Meet Blake Butler, a volunteer pilot for the Douglas DC-3 aircraft based in Shelbyville, Tennessee. “This ...

The aircraft, which flew sightseeing tours for tourists with DDA Classic Airlines and was previously part of the D-Day paradrop and Operation Market Garden, was saved from retirement by the famous ...

GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – After flying a Douglas DC-3 aircraft in college, one Greene County man was back in the cockpit on Saturday 45 years later. He piloted the airplane again thanks to the ...

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.

There were almost a dozen shrink-wrapped pallets of boxes sitting on the rain soaked ramp at Ted Stevens International ...

Colombian investigators are probing an accident with a Douglas DC-3 carrying the same registration as aircraft involved in at least two previous landing mishaps. The aircraft, identified by civil ...