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.

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.

The DC-3's safety record was better than that of most airplanes, primarily because of its great structural strength and efficient single-engine performance. Since 1935, 803 commercial transports and ...

Hanging rebuilt engines on a DC-3 costs, at $35,000 to $45,000 a side, about the same as re-engining a twin-piston, six-seat Beech Baron. And each of these airplanes has only a fraction of the ...

At Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the DC-3 PH-PBA (or Princess Amalia) shut down her engines for the last time with a plane full of passengers, flying its final “Market Garden” leisure flights ...

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.

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.

A vintage Air North DC-3 plane, grounded for a decade, took to the sky once again after being restored by aviation enthusiasts in the U.S. "I am an antique airplane guy," said Ken Casady, a pilot ...