have you seen the Lego Pan Am DC 3?

They have a cooler video of it on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=1891291478164029&external_log_id=f2b2ccec-6698-44a9-b9ab-46f7ff7b8b64&q=lego%20DC%203%20pan%20am

https://www.facebook.com/search/videos/?q=lego%20DC%203%20pan%20am

The DC-3 Society will host its inaugural Fly-In & Showcase in Mid-August 2026 at one of Southern California’s most historic and community-driven airfields

https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/announcing-the-inaugural-dc-3-society-fly-in-showcase.html#google_vignette

The Yacht Club participated in the largest airborne assaults in the European Theater of Operations, such as the invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy, Operation Market Garden, and Battle of the Bulge.

In March 1945, The Yacht Club also participated in the final major airborne operation in Europe during WWII, Operation Varsity, the crossing of the Rhine in Germany.

With its military service having ended, it was acquired by Trans World Airlines and became a DC-3A.

 The work to convert the war-weary transport to a peacetime civilian airliner was carried out by the Timm Aircraft Corporation of Van Nuys, CA, a company that was founded by Otto Timm, who took Charles Lindbergh on his first flight in 1922.

From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, NC86558 flew for TWA, Northeast Airlines, and United

During the three-year restoration, Thun and Merritt were removing the old insulation from the fuselage when they found the names of about 20 soldiers who had flown in the former C-53, written in pencil on the interior skin.

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/douglas-c-53d-42-68738-the-yacht-club.html

"Flagship Detroit", a 1937 DC-3 , was part of a fleet of 82 DC-3s purchased by American Airlines from Douglas Aircraft Corp. Each was named after a city served by American.

The plane was purchased by the foundation after being used for agricultural spraying in Virginia. It was overhauled in 1986. It has 49,000 flight hours, a relatively low number for a plane that old, Gorrell said. Some DC-3s have as much as 200,000 hours.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gcdnz/33481089578/

the world’s only DC-3 on gargantuan floats took to the skies for the first time since 2004.

The airplane, N130Q, was constructed by Douglas at Santa Monica, California in 1943 as a C-53D-DO with serial number 42-68834. As a landplane, it flew for Eastern Airlines after conversion to DC-3B specification until 1952 as N86562, before passing through a series of other civilian owners

In 1986 it was bought by Folsom’s Air Service in Greenville, a major seaplane operation and location of the International Seaplane Fly-In every September. Folsom set out to recreate the famous XC-47C floatplane that was the subject of USAAC trials in the latter stages of World War II.

Approximately 30 sets of Model 78-29000 floats were built by the Edo Corporation for C-47s during WWII, and roughly a half dozen C-47s operated as floatplanes in military service (numbers vary depending on the source). This is the sole civilian DC-3 converted to floats , first flying in the early 1990's and making the rounds on the airshow circuit after failing to obtain type certification for commercial ops. After the floats were damaged in the early 2000's, the aircraft sat idle on wheels at Greenville until Summer 2020 when the aircraft was returned to its floats.

The C-53’s conversion to an amphibian was not without its challenges; Folsom had acquired one of the only remaining intact sets of Edo 28000 floats around the same time as the DC-3, but it took four years to have the required hardware machined and fitted to the airplane before its first flight in 1990.

https://www.guruge.com/the-only-dc-3-float-plane-in-existence-belonging-to-max-folsom-of-greenville-maine/

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/10306240

https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/worlds-only-dc-3-on-floats-takes-to-the-skies.html