Although NX14988 was the first Douglas DST/DC-3 built, it was always intended to be a production aircraft ... as airliners and cargo transports, but some continued to fly as military transports ...

The idea is simple: arm cargo and transport planes with stacks and stacks of long-range stand-off missiles that can be dropped out of a plane’s cargo hold, saturating enemy defenses ...

Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland ... An engine caught fire after a fuel leak, sending the plane and its human cargo plunging into Los Gatos Canyon near Coalinga ...