The Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST), the first variant of the DC-3 series, had its first flight on December 17, 1935, the 32nd anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. Military versions of ...

As the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approached this month, Garrett Fleishman, a 20-year-old college sophomore, flew a restored Douglas C-47 Dakota troop carrier named Placid ...

The Douglas C-47, the militarized version of the DC-3, has been hauling humanitarian relief supplies since the days of the Berlin Airlift, and it will be doing so again, according to officials at the ...

It has just gone midnight on July 26, 1944, and deep in the heart of occupied Poland, a daring top-secret mission known as Operation Most III is underway. As an Allied Douglas C-47 Dakota transport ...