List of original DC-3 operators

With the availability of large numbers of surplus military C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas after the Second World War, nearly every airline and military force in the 1940s and 1950s operated the aircraft at some point.

More than eighty years after the type's first flight, in the second decade of the 21st century the Douglas DC-3 is still in commercial operation.

The RSwAF operated two second-hand ex-AB Aerotransport DC-3 aircraft for SIGINT purposes.

One was shot down on June 13 1952 on a secret mission outside the Baltic coast by Soviet fighters.

It now resides in the Air Force Museum.

A DC-3 with Wright Cyclone engines, built in 1938 for Australian National Airways
KLM - in pre-war (1939-1940) orange for easy detection for fighter planes, as a neutral country
The first DC-3 series aircraft built was this Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST). Seven DSTs were manufactured for American Airlines before the first DC-3 rolled off the production line.
This DC-3 was delivered to Eastern Air Lines on 7 December 1937 and on its retirement from Eastern service in December 1952 was donated to the National Air and Space Museum .
A Transcontinental & Western Air DC-3 in 1941