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Some of the most significant aircraft of the last 100 years: A photo collection.
A century of flight
AP Photo/Grant Halverson
The workhorse
The DC-3, introduced in 1935, for decades was the workhorse of the aviation industry. Here, a 1938 vintage craft adorned with flowers created by children for “Garden in Transit-AIRborne” by Portraits of Hope, a group that promotes art therapy for trauma victims, flies over Kitty Hawk, N.C., as part of the Wright Brothers Centennial commemoration. 
