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 Events honoring the DC-3/Dakota. Part of our home page will be dedicated to a particular person, aircraft or event each month.

Friends and readers of the DC -3/Dakota historical Society pages  who might be looking for an opportunity to pay homage to a particular person (both past and present), a historical aircraft, a repair station, an aircraft museum, an organization dedicated to the aircraft, an historical society (both on and off-line), an aviation publication, an organization dedicated to a particular squadron or anything of historical interest dealing with the DC-3/Dakota aircraft, please contact us. If it is a suitable and appropriate material with or without photos we will consider publishing.

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MISSION STATEMANT
The mission of the DC-3/Dakota Historical Society is to provide an accurate history of the C-47 Dakota and its civilian version, the Douglas DC-3. The DC-3/Dakota Historical Society will serve the aviation community by using credentialed aviation historians to act as a resource center for all things related to aeronautics of the DC-3/C-47/Dakota. We are the oldest (Established in 1994) and most trusted DC-3 website on the Internet.

      Featured Article                  

              Looking Back ©1995, 2013
This article was first published in the Fall 1995 issue of the DC-3/Dakota Journal
We seriously encourage you to submit an article on the beloved Dakota. 
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Coming Soon - A Major Membership Announcement
If you are a member of the original DC-3/Dakota Historical Society please email me at henry39holden@gmail.com. We will be happy to continue your membership and please include your  membership number. Remember back then we didn't have a developed email system. Thank you.

DC-3/Dakota Journals
The DC-1 had cost more than $350,000.
The Douglas DC-1
DC-2 cost TWA  $65,000 for each DC 2 (sans engines)
The Douglas DC-2
The Douglas DC-3
C-47 Dakota dropping field artillary pieces
The C-47 Dakota
Super DC-3 takong off  with JATO jet assisted takeoff
The Super DC-3
three tail DC-4
DC-4/C-54
onlly 12 DC-5s were built
The Douglas DC-5
In 1909, Douglas graduated from Trinity Preparatory School in New York City, and deferring to his father’s wishes, entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Donald W. Douglas
The book "The Legacy of the DC-3"
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Henry Holden
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Allen Campbell