Douglas DC 3

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Douglas DC 3
Douglas D.C. 3 twenty-one passenger air liners are used by United Airlines, which Company recently completed 100,000,000 miles of flying in ten years of operation, on its coast-to-coast route from New York to California. The D.C. 3 is an enlargement of the D.C. 2 which it resembles very closely. In luxury and completeness of equipment it surpasses any aircraft at present in operation in the United States. Fitted with two 1,150 h.p. Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" engines it has a cruising speed of 193 m.p.h. Its loaded weight is 24,900 lbs.