Douglas C-47 Skytrain 🛩 Perhaps no aircraft of World War II has been as durable or long-lived as the C-47 Skytrain. Utilizing Douglas Aircraft Company’s DC-3 civilian airliner airframe, it remains one of the most successful aircraft ever built. The DC-3 was the first aircraft to make civilian passenger travel reliable and profitable with the C-47 proving equally trustworthy in military service. A twin-engine, low-winged monoplane, the airframe included a light, all-metal alloy construction with