DC-3: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Dakota • Skytrain • R4D • Douglas DC-3

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A polished silver United Airlines Douglas DC-3 airliner with registration NC16099 flying above the clouds, circa 1950.

Republic 4D, a version of the C-47

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Key People

Donald Douglas, 1970

Donald Douglas

American aircraft designer

NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.

Man-Made Birds in the Sky