The world's only flying DC-3 on floats, N130Q, returned to the skies over Maine, completing runway approaches and water landings on Moosehead Lake.

When you visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, and at its Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, you expect to see relics of a bygone era. From the original ...

Perhaps the most important aircraft in the history of commercial aviation was the Douglas DC-3. This year will mark the 90 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the DC-3. On June 25, 1936, ...

“These aircraft are more than historic airplanes — they're flying museums,” DC-3 Society Board Chair Moreno Aguiari said. “Their story is far from over.” The DC-3 took its maiden flight Dec. 17, 1935, ...

The history of flight is, perhaps, one of the most astonishing stories we've ever told as a species. It's surreal to think just how fast tremendous advances in the field were made: There were ...