Editing Douglas DC-3 (section)

===Production===
Total production including all military variants was 16,079.<ref name="Gradidge p. 20">Gradidge 2006, p. 20.</ref> More than 400 remained in commercial service in 1998. Production was:
* 607 civilian variants
* 10,048 military C-47 and C-53 derivatives built at [[Santa Monica, California]], [[Long Beach, California]], and [[Oklahoma City]]
* 4,937 built under license in the Soviet Union (1939–1950) as the [[Lisunov Li-2]] ([[NATO reporting name]]: '''Cab''')
* 487 [[Mitsubishi Kinsei]]-engined aircraft built by Showa and Nakajima in Japan (1939–1945), as the [[Showa/Nakajima L2D|L2D Type 0 transport]] (Allied codename '''Tabby''')

Production of DSTs ended in mid-1941 and civilian DC-3 production ended in early 1943, although dozens of the DSTs and DC-3s ordered by airlines that were produced between 1941 and 1943 were pressed into the US military service while still on the production line.<ref>Pearcy 1987, p. 76</ref><ref>Pearcy 1987, pp. 69–117</ref> Military versions were produced until the end of the war in 1945. A larger, more powerful Super DC-3 was launched in 1949 to positive reviews. The civilian market was flooded with second-hand C-47s, many of which were converted to passenger and cargo versions. Only five Super DC-3s were built, and three of them were delivered for commercial use. The prototype Super DC-3 served the US Navy with the designation YC-129 alongside 100 R4Ds that had been upgraded to the Super DC-3 specifications.