In the late 1930s, when TWA opened a route to Dayton, Ohio, the 65-year-old Wright was on hand to witness the arrival of the DC-3 at his hometown airport. “They tell me that [the plane] is so ...

The DC-3 is considered one of the most successful aircraft in the history of aviation. The DC-1 traces back to 1931, when a TWA airliner (a Fokker F-10 trimotor) crashed after one of its wooden ...