Originally Posted by
spargazer
...The US built civil airliners during WW2 and dumped 1000s of DC3s (C47) on the civil market afterwards,
the US has been supporting Boeing since the 1930s, its a way of life out there.
The DC-3/C-47 was produced by Douglas (interestingly
, and Lisunov,
and Nakajima), not Boeing; dumping thousands of them on the civil market after the War only depressed the market for Boeing products.