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The Basler BT-67 is a utility aircraft produced by Basler Turbo Conversions of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is a remanufactured and modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain / Douglas DC-3; the modifications are designed to significantly extend the DC-3's serviceable lifetime.
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II. It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version of the Douglas DC-2 .
The 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 crash refers to the crash of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm via Copenhagen on 26 January. It occurred shortly after the Douglas DC-3 took off from Kastrup Airport in Denmark. All 16 passengers and 6 crew members on board were killed. [1]
A DC-3 with Wright Cyclone engines, built in 1938 for Australian National Airways 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 ...
Designation for 28 additional new aircraft built by Douglas in 1946 for civil airline operation using components from uncompleted USAAF C-117s. [6] DC-3S Super DC-3, improved DC-3 with a new wing and tail, and powered by two 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-2000-D7 or 1,475 hp (1,100 kW) Wright R-1820-C9HE Cyclone engines. The five ...
An Aeroflot DC-3-196 (registration URSS-B, M/N 2035), with 4 crew members and 16 passengers, stalled and crashed on takeoff from Zavodskoy Airfield in Saratov after lifting off too late. Co-pilot was killed. Two other crew members and one passenger sustained injuries. The aircraft was operating a Baku–Saratov-Moscow–passenger service. [18 ...
Douglas DC-3 FAC-661 39: Crashed at San Nicolas whilst operating a domestic non-scheduled passenger flight from Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport, Medellín to Gerardo Tobar López Airport, Buenaventurea. [81] February 10, 1972: Douglas DC-3 — 5: Written off near Dhaka, killing all five people on board. The aircraft was on a training flight. [82 ...
11 August: A Douglas DC-3 of Ethiopian Airlines was hijacked on a domestic flight from Bahir Dar Airport to Addis Ababa Airport. [36] 16 August: A Douglas DC-3 of Olympic Airways was hijacked on a domestic flight from Ellinikon International Airport, Athens to Agrinion Airport. The aircraft, possibly registered SX-BBF, landed at Valona. [37]