John Benson: DC-3 Airplane

Artist: John Benson
1949 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1988
Image Size: 12 by 14.125 inches
Overall Size: 18.125 by 20 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Water Color Paper

The Douglas DC-3 did more than any other type of plane to get Americans flying. After it entered service in 1936, its speed and comfort attracted the passenger volume which led to the modern airliner, and the modern airline. This makes the Douglas DC-3, in the opinion of the experts, the single most significant transport plane ever built. The DC-3 was an enlarged version of the swift DC-2. In 1934, a DC-2 won the handicap section of the England-Australia air race, taking only a few hours longer to complete the trip than the custom-designed racing airplane which came in first overall. However, the DC-2's fuselage was too narrow to make it a sleeper aircraft on the U.S. transcontinental route, where new planes were urgently needed. The DC-3, dubbed the Douglas Sleeper Transport, could provide nighttime berths for fourteen passengers and accommodate twenty-one passengers in daytime -- an amazing fifty percent increase in capacity compared to the DC-2, and for only a slight increase in costs. Because of this, the world's airlines loved the DC-3. Before this airplane finally went out of production after World War II, about 11,000 DC-3's and DC-3 variants were built -- far more than any other type of transport airplane.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day of Issue U.S. 36¢ Airmail Postal Card issued May 14, 1988.

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