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The 2-engine aircraft in the photos below is a Convair CV-240. Its design was similar to the Douglas DC-3, the plane that popularized air travel in the United States.

An Eastern Airlines DC-3 is one of the airplanes displayed at the “America By Air” exhibit at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.

The museum plaque about the Eastern Airlines DC-3 airplane.

Northeast Airlines also flew the 4-engine Vickers Viscount 798D model aircraft seen below. It seated 53 and flew at a cruising speed of 238mph.