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| | Northeast Airlines Douglas DC-3 (Circa 1965) for Flight Simulator |
 | | Its dominace of the airline scene became such that, of the 322 aircraft in U.S. airline service in 1941, 260 of them, or 80 percent, were DC-3s; and the percentage of seats offered was much higher. |
 | | During the war, the "Gooney Bird" was built in Japan and the Soviet Union, as well as in the U.S., and more than 13, 000 were estimated to have been built altogether, in all versions, military and civil; and some hundreds of them are still flying today, a few even in scheduled service. |
 | | On August 12, 1966, a Northeast Airlines DC-3, piloted by Capt. Guy R. Caron, was directly responsible for the rescue of the fishing trawler F/V Mary and Joan off the coast of Massachusetts. |
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