List of original DC-3 operators
The List of original Douglas DC-3 operators lists only the original customers who purchased new aircraft.
With the availability of large numbers of surplus military C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas after the Second World War, nearly every airline and military force in the 1940s and 1950s operated the aircraft at some point. More than ninety years after the type's first flight, in the third decade of the 21st century the Douglas DC-3 is still in commercial operation.
Commercial operators
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Czechoslovakia
- Československá letecká společnost (ČLS)[a][4]
- Československé státní aerolinie (ČSA)
- France
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Japan
- Far East Fur Trading[5]
- Great Northern Airways[2]
- Imperial Japanese Airways[8]
- Japan Air Transport[8]
- Peru
- Romania
- Soviet Union (Russia)
- Sweden
- Switzerland
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- United States
- American Airlines[12]
- Braniff Airways[3]
- Capital Airlines - the only purchaser of the DC-3S Super DC-3 post-war variant[13]
- Chicago and Southern Air Lines[14]
- Canadian Colonial Airlines[3]
- Delta Air Lines[15]
- Eastern Air Lines[7]
- Hawaiian Airlines[16]
- Northeast[17]
- Northwest Airlines[18]
- Pan American-Grace Airways[10]
- Pan American World Airways[10]
- Pennsylvania Central Airlines[17]
- Transcontinental & Western Air[19]
- United Airlines[7]
- Western Air Express[11]
Business and Executive operators
- United States
- Civil Aeronautics Authority[20]
- Swiftflite Inc[15]
Military operators
- United States
- United States Army Air Corps/United States Army Air Forces[7]
- Includes aircraft built for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force but taken over before delivery following the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies[21]
- United States Navy[22]
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.28
- 1 2 3 Berry 1971, p.29
- 1 2 3 Berry 1971, p.34
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.22
- 1 2 Berry 1971, p.30
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.32
- 1 2 3 4 Berry 1971, p.24
- 1 2 Best Air-Britain Archive Spring 2008, pp. 25–26
- ↑ Pearcy (1987), p.29
- 1 2 3 4 5 Berry 1971, p.27
- 1 2 Berry 1971, p.26
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.23
- ↑ O'Leary (1992), p.69
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.33
- 1 2 Berry 1971, p.37
- ↑ Forman 2005 p.69
- 1 2 Berry 1971, p.35
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.31
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.25
- ↑ Berry 1971, p.38
- ↑ Pearcy (1987), pp. 101-105
- ↑ Berry 1971, p. 43
Bibliography
- Peter Barry, ed. (1971). The Douglas Commercial Story. Air-Britain Historians.
- Best, Martin S. (Spring 2008). "The Development of Commercial Aviation in China: Part 5A: Japanese Airlines in Occupied China and Manchuria". Air-Britain Archive. pp. 17–31. ISSN 0262-4923.
- O'Leary, Michael (1992). DC-3 and C-47 Gooney Birds. Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International. ISBN 0-87938-543-X.
- Pearcy, Arthur (1987). Douglas DC-3 Survivors. Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: Aston Publications. ISBN 0-946627-13-4.
- Forman, Peter (2005). Wings of Paradise. Barnstormer Books. ISBN 978-0-9701594-4-1.
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