First flight: Dec. 17, 1935
Model number: DC-3
Wingspan: 95 feet
Length: 64 feet 5.5 inches
Height: 16 feet 3.6 inches
Ceiling: 20,800 feet
Range: 1,495 miles
Weight: 30,000 pounds
Power plant: Two 1,200-horsepower Wright Cyclone radial engines
Speed: 192 mph
Accommodation: 3 crew and 14 sleeper passengers, or 21 to 28 day
passengers, or 3,725 to 4,500 pounds freight
Source: Boeing
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antoin Daltun" <adaltun@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: DC-3 longest sector?
> Thanks, Kees, a new idea since I was ideally looking for a non-stop
> sector.
> It is ironic too that KLM/KNILM [a precursor of Skyteam???] were operating
> through to Australia while KLM does not today (and neither does Skyteam).
>
> Antoin
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Kees de Lezenne Coulander" <listbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 25 October 2005 20:28
> Subject: Re: DC-3 longest sector?
>
>
>> Antoin Daltun <adaltun@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >Exactly what I am looking for: max miles/hours for a flight in airline
>> >service rather than years of service with an airline.
>> >Antoin
>>
>> In pre-WWII days, KLM flew the Amsterdam to Batavia (now Jakarta)
>> route
>> with DC-3s. In Batavia, a connection was provided to a KNILM DC-3 for
> those
>> wishing to continue to Australia.
>>
>> The Amsterdam-Batavia route most likely qualifies as the longest
>> scheduled route by DC-3/C-47, although obviously with multiple stops.
>> At the time, it was probably also the longest scheduled flight of any
>> kind
>> flown by the same aeroplane and by the same crew. During night stops,
>> passengers and crew were accomodated in hotels en-route. Imperial Airways
>> served the London to Australia route, but used flying boats for the
>> over-water sectors and landplanes for the over-land sectors. so in fact
>> every airplane and crws was just shuttling backwards and forwards over
>> its own allocated sector.
>>
>> Kees de Lezenne Coulander
>>