Description

This three volume publication, containing over 1,000 pages, is the best source of historic information about the aircraft that established the world’s civil air transport system and have provided military air transport for over 70 years. Jennifer Gradidge, the foremost DC-3 historian, led a team of Air-Britain (and AAHS) historians to produce this book.


This item is Volume 2 which focuses on information regarding individual aircraft.

Chapter 5 consists of individual histories of all the various DC-1, DC-2, DC-3 and military variants built by Douglas Aircraft Company. This chapter, covering almost 400 pages, is organized by Douglas Aircraft Co. construction number (msn). The exception to this convention is a five-page section at the beginning of Chapter 5 covering DC-1, DC-2 and military variants of the DC-2. Chapter 6 deals with various turboprop conversions. Chapter 7 gives individual aircraft histories of Soviet manufacture. Air Britain has continued to update individual Li-2 aircraft history information, as it is discovered, in their monthly Air-Britain News publication. Chapter 8, Survivors, provides the identities of existing aircraft. Chapter 9 lists preserved, museum and collection aircraft. Chapter 10 gives construction numbers for aircraft with fictitious markings. Chapter 11 is a very handy registration – construction number cross reference. The final chapter is a bibliography.