Aviation engineers have spent 80 years trying to replace the Douglas DC-3. Every attempt has failed. This is the story of why — and why companies like Basler Turbo Conversions in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, find it more profitable to strip a 90-year-old airframe and rebuild it with modern Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboprop engines than to certify a new aircraft from scratch.
From a telephone call between C.R. Smith and Donald Douglas in 1934… to a gravel strip in Yellowknife in 2018… to a Basler BT-67 landing at the South Pole in 2024 — this is the full story of the aircraft that refused to be replaced.
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