Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 is an iconic twin-engine propellor-driven aircraft which has interested many aviation enthusiasts, including Captain Zaharie Shah.
Enhthusiasts' Website
A website named The DC-3 Hangar (https://www.douglasdc3.com) has an amazing collection of images, stories and profiles of the Douglas DC-3.
Captain Zaharie Shah's Flight Simulator and a DC-3
Evidence recovered from Captain Shah's personal flight simulator showed that he had 'flown' a simulated DC-3 at Yellowknife in Canada indicating his personal interest in the DC-3 and an incident involving a Buffalo Airways DC-3C registered C-GWIR which crashed on 19 August 2013, with no casualties. See the article Buffalo Airways Douglas DC-3C Incident (2013).
A snapshot of the enthusiast's website The DC-3 Hangar captured on 2 January 2014 shows what the site would have looked like if viewed by Captain Shah before flight MH370. In this snapshot is an article Buffalo Airways and the DC-3, which seems similar to a current (2025) version https://www.douglasdc3.com/buff/buffalo.htm. Neither version describes the 2013 incident.
DC-3 Images on Wikimedia Commons
Enthusiasts have uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons website many images of, and related to, DC-3 aircraft. Four have been selected (below).
Very few DC-3 aircraft are still airworthy. Complete aircraft are mostly found in fixed outdoor displays or in aircraft museums.
Eastern Air Lines DC-3 on display
at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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Alaska Airlines DC-3 at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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The cockpit of the DC-3 was designed in the 1930's.
,_Australia_-_Air_Force_AN0576146.jpg "Chris Finney (GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html> or GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>), via Wikimedia Commons")
Cockpit, Douglas DC-3 Dakota, formerly Royal Australian Air Force
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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.jpg "Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons")
Douglas DC-3 Cockpit
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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The DC-3 on Wikipedia
The article below is embedded from Wikipedia.