Only one prototype was produced and served Transcontinental & Western Air (later Trans World Airlines or TWA) and two Spanish ...

If there are many more entries in the race to take over California’s troubled Douglas Aircraft Co., it will have to be run in two heats. Plagued by plunging stock (from a 1966 high of 112 to a ...

However concerns eventually led the Air Force to have the Douglas Aircraft Company build a plane specifically for the president. ∎ Thus the Douglas VC-54C Skymaster became the first aircraft ...

Looking at his own business, Donald Douglas had reason to be cheerful. His Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. had abandoned its plans to build the DC-7 Globemaster and the DC-8 Mixmaster. But it had ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The A-20 brought havoc to the enemy. During the Second World War, the Douglas Aircraft Company produced several important aircraft, and today the SBD Dauntless ...

Prior to the merger of McDonnell Douglas with Boeing, Mr. Sears became president of Douglas Aircraft Co., the commercial aircraft division of McDonnell Douglas, and president of McDonnell Douglas ...

As part of our ongoing series Today in Aviation History, we discuss the first flights of some of the most remarkable aircraft in the annuals of aviation history. While December 17 is best known as ...

This Douglas Taskmaster Aircraft Tractor has been owned by its current owner Jim Kerr for around five years. When he bought the aircraft tractor it was in terrible state, a "wreck". Since then he ...