Founded in 1990, Basler’s made its name modifying and remanufacturing existing DC-3 airframes by removing the existing Pratt&Whitney R 1830 piston engines.

First flown on December 17, 1935, the Douglas DC-3, an iteration of the DC-1 and ... Two Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radial engines power most DC-3s and their military variants, but early ...

If the Ford Model T put America on wheels, then it's safe to say the Douglas DC-3 put America in the air. With more than 800 of the almost 11,000 DC-3s still flying, it truly qualifies as an icon ...

The DC-3, built in 1942, was a Basler Turbo TP67 version, with its original Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830 piston engines replaced by Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67R turboprops.

Built by Douglas Aircraft, founded in 1921, the DC-3 incorporated breakthroughs developed at Douglas and Boeing—super-charged 1,200-horsepower twin engines, cantilevered metal wings, retractable ...

As time went on, the jet engine became a more practical and efficient solution for longer flights. The DC-3, then, started to fall off drastically.

One of the longest-used airliners ever, the Douglas DC-3 nears 80 years in the air as an aviation icon. ... McBryan says it will be a shortage of leaded fuel that his DC-3’s engines burn.

Preliminary evidence indicates that the German-operated Douglas DC-3 which crashed at Berlin Schonefeld today suffered a failure in its left engine after take-off. Seven occupants, out of 28 on ...

One of Catalina Flying Boats’ historic DC-3 aircraft flew over Long Beach Airport Wednesday afternoon for what amounted to an aerial farewell before its final departure. The company, which hauls ...

To top it all off, the DC-7 was almost two hours faster than the equivalent Boeing piston airliner, the 377 Super Stratocruiser, from London or Paris to any of New York City's three major airports.