On this day in aviation history, February 20, 1939, the Douglas DC-5 made its first flight. Less remembered than its cousins, ...

However concerns eventually led the Air Force to have the Douglas Aircraft Company build a plane specifically for the president. ∎ Thus the Douglas VC-54C Skymaster became the first aircraft ...

The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously ...

Looking at his own business, Donald Douglas had reason to be cheerful. His Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. had abandoned its plans to build the DC-7 Globemaster and the DC-8 Mixmaster. But it had ...

The only remaining airworthy Douglas A-20 Havoc crash-landed during an airshow in Texas, catching fire and injuring the pilot ...

Prior to the merger of McDonnell Douglas with Boeing, Mr. Sears became president of Douglas Aircraft Co., the commercial aircraft division of McDonnell Douglas, and president of McDonnell Douglas ...