The Douglas DC-2 is a 14-passenger, twin-engined airliner that was produced by the American company Douglas Aircraft Company starting in 1934. It competed...
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It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version of the Douglas DC-2. It is a low-wing metal monoplane with conventional landing gear, powered...
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The Douglas DC-8 (sometimes McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft...
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Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced as the Douglas DC-9...
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The Douglas DC-1 was the first model of the famous American DC (Douglas Commercial) commercial transport aircraft series. Although only one example of...
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The Douglas DC-7 is an American transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1953 to 1958. A derivative of the DC-6, it was the last major...
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for long-range...
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The Douglas DC-4 is an American four-engined (piston), propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane...
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The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military...
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The Douglas DC-5 (Douglas Commercial Model 5) was a 16-to-22-seat, twin-engine propeller aircraft intended for shorter routes than the Douglas DC-3 or...
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Skystreak (1947) Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket (1948) Douglas D-906 Douglas DA-1 Ambassador (1928) Douglas DC-1 (1933) Douglas DC-2 (1934) Douglas DC-3 (1935) List...
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Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. Besides transport...
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The Douglas R4D-8 (later redesignated C-117D) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3S (Super DC-3) airliner. It was...
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On 19 December 1934 the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operated Douglas DC-2-115A Uiver (registration PH-AJU) was an extra scheduled international Christmas...
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The Douglas DC-4E was an American experimental airliner that was developed before World War II. The DC-4E never entered production due to being superseded...
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Gazette Review. BWW News Desk. "D.C. Douglas Joins Cast of Syfy's SHARKNADO 2". www.broadwayworld.com. "D.C. Douglas' "Original Lance Baxter Show" 2001"...
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in 1986, McDonnell Douglas had started to search for a DC-10 derivative as early as 1976. Two versions were considered then: a DC-10-10 with a fuselage...
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2–0–2. This crash is also the first loss of a 2–0–2. September 2 – In the 1948 Lutana crash, Australian National Airways Flight 331, a Douglas DC-3, crashed...
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rest upside down in a rice field. 20 December 1934 – 1934 KLM Douglas DC-2 crash: Douglas DC-2-115A PH-AJU Uiver crashed at Rutbah Wells, Iraq, killing all...
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late 1930s and early 1940s. The Bolo was developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company from their DC-2 as a replacement for the Martin B-10. By 1940 standards...
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aircraft. In the 1970s, McDonnell Douglas began development of the first derivative or second generation of the DC-9 family, a lengthened version of the...
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incidents involving the Douglas DC-3, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2. Military accidents...
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Meanwhile, Douglas was strained by the cost of the DC-8 and DC-9. The two companies began to sound each other out about a merger in 1963. Douglas offered...
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On 20 July 1935 a Douglas DC-2 aircraft, registration PH-AKG, operated by KLM, flying from Milano, Italy to Schiphol, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands crashed...
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The Douglas DC-8 was an American piston-engined airliner project by Douglas Aircraft. A concept developed more than a decade before the DC-8 jetliner,...
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as the "DC-1".[citation needed] The name "Delta Clipper" was chosen to result in the acronym "DC" to draw a connection with the Douglas "DC Series" of...
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This is a list of operators of the Douglas DC-4, Douglas C-54, Canadair North Star and Douglas R5D. Aden Aden AirwaysNote 1 Algeria Air Algerie Antigua...
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flight in 1933, with the Douglas DC-1 and Douglas DC-2 closely following in response. The most successful is the Douglas DC-3, which was produced in the...
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Gatwick in 1985 via its McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 "Golden Wings" service. Although Eastern announced on its March 2, 1986 timetable that it intended to...
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was produced primarily in the 1930s to compete with the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2. The type gained considerable fame as one was flown by Amelia Earhart...
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