Artifact
Douglas DC-3
Airliner built by Douglas, first flown in 1935.
- Dates
- 1935
- Place
- Santa Monica
- Also known as
- DC-3, C-47
Connections 1
produced by
- Douglas Aircraft Company 1935 Scholarship & press 12
Timeline 2 dates
- 1935 Douglas DC-3
- 1935 Douglas Aircraft Company produced Douglas DC-3
Proof 2 sources
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Inter Phone, Douglas DC-3 (record carries the museum DC-3 summary and history text), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Scholarship & press
First flown in 1935, the Douglas DC-3 became the most successful airliner in the formative years of air transportation, and was the first to fly profitably without government subsidy.
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December 17, 1935 (This Day in Airpower), Air & Space Forces Magazine.
Scholarship & press
make the first flight of the Douglas Sleeper Transport, the first of 10,654 DC-3s and derivatives Douglas will build between 1935 and 1947 takes place at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif.
Page history 1 change
- Tell Santa Monica's story and link entries to their stories (0.4.0)8f57652
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