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A 3-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy are among the victims of several shootings that happened in the District over the ...

The DC-3 in World War II. Production of DSTs ended in mid-1941, while civilian DC-3 production ended in early 1943. By that time, more than 600 DC-3s had been built. However, ...

First flown on December 17, 1935, the Douglas DC-3, an iteration of the DC-1 and DC-2, married reliability with performance and comfort in a way no other airplane had before.

The DC-3 is what’s known as a “tail-dragger,” meaning that it has a landing wheel on the back of the plane. This is a staple of older planes, but modern-day jetliners have nose wheels instead.

Pilots will tell you the DC-3 won’t quit because it was so well-built. Some say its design and rugged landing gear helped it touch down safely on short runways.

The Douglas DC-3 was introduced in the 1930s, played a key role in World War II, and still flies commercially today. How has it endured? Jonathan Glancey investigates. Log in to a live flight ...

In 1939 the DC-3 was called on to aid the military fleets of the world. Many commercial carriers in Europe put their DC-3s to use as military transports. The United States ordered new versions of the ...

A DC-3 taxis to the runway through blowing snow on its nightly run from Yellowknife to Hay River. Jim Seida. At 3,000 feet, the plane breaks through the clouds, ...