The DC-3 remained standard equipment throughout the 1950s for North Central Airlines, formerly Wisconsin Central Airlines. NC17320 delivered to TWA in 1937. This airframe was apparently never requisitioned during WWII. Photo by: Albert Fenn / Life

NC17322 some time after its visit to Canada. The slogan 'The Lindbergh Line' and horizontal stripes on the tailfin have been added to the livery. Crashed in 1944. Photo from: Albuquerque Museum

The DC-3 was a largish airliner in the 1930s but it could still be landed in any large field. Zenda is a hamlet in Ontario, named for the 1894 Anthony Hope Hawkins novel The Prisoner of Zenda. When the book was filmed in 1937, twelve inhabitants - said to be the entire population - were flown to the movie's New York premiere. Tilsonburg (CYTB) is near Zenda but dates from WWII. Photo from: Life

Ex HC-AUV, registered Oct 1987 and merged into SAEP in 1991

Twelve TWA DC-3s and DC-2s lined up. The second DC-3 is NC17321. All seem to wear the slogan 'The Lindbergh Line', which was done away with from late 1938. Newark, 'the first major airport in the New York area', was the world's busiest in the late 1930s. However, in a quarrel over costs the airlines all moved to La Guardia in 1940 and the huge new hangar in the background, sized for the DC-4(E), was leased to the Brewster aircraft company. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)