Marking the 90th anniversary of the Douglas DC-3, this article highlights the evolution of the D-Day Squadron into the DC-3 ...

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 ...

As part of our ongoing series Today in Aviation History, we discuss the first flights of some of the most remarkable aircraft ...

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 ...

Carrying 21 passengers, three crew members and cruising at about 125 mph, the Douglas DC-3 was once the crown jewel of commercial aviation. It was in the mid-1930s that American Airlines and its DC-3 ...

"Weaving together the narratives of engineers, pilots, mechanics, soldiers, and passengers, this chronicle illustrates the history of the Douglas DC-3. Beginning with creator Donald Douglas, this ...

From the myth of Icarus to the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci's ornithopter, humanity has looked to the sky since first watching birds take wing. History is dotted with ill-advised attempts to achieve ...

Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland with 28 Mexican nationals being sent back to México. Most were “braceros,” the slang term for Mexican laborers once imported to ...