[Photo: airandspace.si.edu] The prototype Douglas Sleeper Transport ... market swarmed with surplus aircraft of all types following the close of World War II. Many C-47s were converted to ...

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 ...

On May 11, 1934, the Douglas DC-2 took its first flight, marking a major leap forward in commercial aviation. With sleek, ...

Designed to compete with the Douglas DC-4 and Boeing ... The onset of WWII shifted its role from a civilian airliner to a military transport aircraft. The C-46 is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft ...

A vintage WW2-era aircraft operated by the Commemorative Air Force has flown from the US to the UK for a series of VE Day ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the Douglas SBD Dauntless made its first flight-ushering in an era of unmatched dive-bombing ...

The Hercules’ long tenure began in the 1950s, when the Korean War demonstrated the obsolescence of World War II-era piston-engine transport aircraft such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain ...