The List of original Douglas DC-3 operators lists only the original customers who purchased new aircraft.

With the availability of large numbers of surplus military C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas after the Second World War, nearly every airline and military force in the 1940s and 1950s operated the aircraft at some point. More than ninety years after the type's first flight, in the third decade of the 21st century the Douglas DC-3 is still in commercial operation.

Commercial operators

Australia Australian National Airways (ANA)Berry 1971, p.28

Belgium Sabena

Canada Canadian Colonial Airways

Czechoslovakia (ČLS)Berry 1971, p.22 Československé státní aerolinie (ČSA)

France Air FranceBerry 1971, p.30

Ireland Aer LingusBerry 1971, p.32

Netherlands KLM

Japan Far East Fur Trading Great Northern AirwaysBerry 1971, p.29 Imperial Japanese Airways Japan Air TransportBest Air-Britain Archive Spring 2008, pp. 25–26

Peru PANAGRAPearcy (1987), p.29

Romania LARESBerry 1971, p.27

Soviet Union (Russia) Mongolian Transport CompanyBerry 1971, p.27 Northeast

Sweden AB Aerotransport

Switzerland Swissair

United States American AirlinesBerry 1971, p.23 Braniff AirwaysBerry 1971, p.34 Capital Airlines - the only purchaser of the DC-3S Super DC-3 post-war variantO'Leary (1992), p.69 Chicago and Southern Air LinesBerry 1971, p.33 Canadian Colonial Airlines Delta Air LinesBerry 1971, p.37 Eastern Air Lines Hawaiian AirlinesForman 2005 p.69 Northeast Northwest AirlinesBerry 1971, p.31 Pan American-Grace Airways Pan American World AirwaysBerry 1971, p.27 Pennsylvania Central AirlinesBerry 1971, p.35 Transcontinental & Western AirBerry 1971, p.25 United AirlinesBerry 1971, p.24 Western Air ExpressBerry 1971, p.26

Business and Executive operators United States Civil Aeronautics AuthorityBerry 1971, p.38 Swiftflite Inc

Military operators United States

United States Army Air Corps/United States Army Air Forces Includes aircraft built for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force but taken over before delivery following the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East IndiesPearcy (1987), pp. 101-105 United States NavyBerry 1971, p. 43

See also List of Douglas C-47 Skytrain operators

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