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DC-3 airliner cabin Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST) showing the second row of windows for the upper bunk beds, above the airline titles "DC" stands for "Douglas Commercial". The DC-3 was the culmination of a development effort that began after an inquiry from Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA) to Donald Douglas.
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (IATA: BWI, ICAO: KBWI, FAA LID: BWI) – also known as Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and simply as BWI Airport – is an international airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, [2] located 9 mi (14 km) south of downtown Baltimore and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. [6] [7]
The airport is used for general aviation and sees one scheduled passenger airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 3,630 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [ 3 ] 2,626 in 2009 and 2,429 in 2010. [ 4 ]
In the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years, a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet collided on Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...
North American airlines with the best on-time performance for 2023 A Delta Air Lines A350 on departure (Chris Rank/Rank Studios 2017) Delta Air Lines – 84.72% of flights on time
The last DC-3 flight was early 1969; NC was the last local service carrier to use it. In 1969 North Central Airlines moved its headquarters to the south side of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport ; in 2009 the building was the Building C Maintenance and Administrative Facility of Northwest Airlines . [ 11 ]
In 1958 Frontier created a mini-hub at Farmington operating 13 flights per day with as many as five DC-3 aircraft on the ground at one time. Through the 1960s Frontier upgraded their aircraft with Convair 340 piston engine aircraft and later with Convair 580 turboprops.
Over a three-year period ending in 2019, there were 88,000 helicopter flights within 30 miles (48 km) of Reagan National Airport, including about 33,000 military and 18,000 law enforcement flights ...