The legend takes
flight again
The Spirit of Douglas is a restored DC-3, lovingly brought back to honour Donald Douglas and the aircraft that transformed aviation. With her iconic twin radial engines and the clean lines of her pioneering design, she’s crossing the globe in a daring bid to retrace history’s great air journeys.
She carries the spirit of exploration and invites you to witness, feel and be part of keeping this legend aloft.
In the footsteps of the World Cruiser Tour
Here, you can watch the story unfold. Our flight tracker maps each leg of the World Cruiser Tour so you can follow the Spirit of Douglas across countries, continents and oceans.
Track the Journey
The Odyssey on film
The Spirit of Douglas is a story unfolding in the skies. Our documentary series captures every moment of the Odyssey: the triumphs and the turbulence, the precision of flight and the poetry of the journey.
Watch the Odyssey SeriesFrom past to present
The aircraft that changed everything
When Donald Douglas’s team of engineers designed the DC-3, they gave us more than just an aircraft. They gave the world a revolution. Her strength, reliability and elegance reshaped aviation, transforming flying from the privilege of the few into a shared experience that connected people and places like never before. In many ways, the DC-3 started what we now know as ‘commercial aviation’.
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Voices from the flight deck
This journey would never happen with the amazing people who guide and nurture the Spirit of Douglas. From the cockpit to the crew, from the ground engineers to the storytellers capturing it all, this aircraft is flown by a team united in passion, precision and love for flight. Voices from the Flight Deck gives you a window into their world
