The Douglas DC-3 is the airplane that changed the world. Known by an assortment of sub-types and epithets, most prevalently 'Dakota' in Britain and her states, and 'Gooney Bird' in the US, Donald Douglas' excellent creation is as yet the most-delivered carrier on the planet. The immense quantities of surplus military C-47s accessible after the Second World War, implied that basically every beginning up carrier (remembering Air Ceylon for 1947) started existence with Dakotas giving the lift.
