Del 22 Dec 1937 Former Eastern Airlines as NC18124,Taken out of service by Eastern Airlines after flying some 57,000 hours, equivalent to six-and-a-half years of non-stop flying.Presented by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Preserved at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. 08/04/1941 "Spirit of Seventy Six" Former TWA Transcontinental,Western Air as NC1944 Under preservation work at Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar

Staged photo, assumed taken before America's entry in WWII. NC18122 delivered in November 1937, probably still in earlier livery. Location is Miami, presumably MIA, then 36th Street Airport, of which Eastern was an early adopter. Photo from: Georgia State University Library

Delivered to Eastern as NC18122 in 1937. To the USAAF as C-49G 42-56631 in 1942. Returned to Eastern as NC18121 in 1944. Reregistered as N18121 after 1948. To N15M in 1953 and CP-1128 in 1974. Stored at Cochabamba from 2001. Probably one of the four DC-3s stored there on the current satellite image in 2020.

Seen in the Smithsonian Museum

After several decades on display at the NASM in Washington DC, this DC-3 can be seen here undergoing conservation work in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar.

Delivered to Eastern Airlines in December 1937. Retired by Eastern in early 1953 and donated to the NASM, who put it on display in July 1976.

Delivered to EAL on 22 December 1936. Wears "The Great Silver Fleet" titling. To TWA in 1940 and impressed as C-49D 42-43624 in March 1942. Returned to TWA post war. Obtained from EAL 60 years ago.