The most demanding part of the specification was that the airliner would have to be capable of safely taking off from any airport on TWA's main routes (and in particular Albuquerque, at high altitude and with severe summer temperatures) with one engine non-functioning.

Nevertheless, he submitted a design consisting of an all-metal, low-wing, twin-engined aircraft seating 12 passengers, a crew of two and a flight attendant.

[5] It was insulated against noise, heated, and fully capable of both flying and performing a controlled takeoff or landing on one engine.

[9] TWA accepted the aircraft on 15 September 1933 with a few modifications (mainly increasing seating to 14 passengers and adding more powerful engines) and subsequently ordered 20 examples of the developed production model which was named the Douglas DC-2.

[11] It was later operated by Iberia Airlines from July 1939 with the name Negron; it force-landed at Málaga Airport, Spain, on October 4, 1940 and was damaged beyond repair.