Aircraft comparison
Douglas DC-3 vs Airbus A350 XWB
In a nutshell
The Airbus A350 XWB carries 15.0 times as many passengers as the Douglas DC-3 (315 vs 21).
The Airbus A350 XWB flies 13,202 km farther non-stop than the Douglas DC-3. That difference is like a New York–Hong Kong flight.
At take-off, one Airbus A350 XWB can weigh as much as 24 Douglas DC-3 aircraft combined.
Over 1,000 km of cruise, the Airbus A350 XWB arrives 111 minutes ahead of the Douglas DC-3.
The Douglas DC-3 first flew 78 years before the Airbus A350 XWB.
Nose to tail, the Airbus A350 XWB is 47.1 m longer than the Douglas DC-3.
To scale
Parked side by side at the same scale: each drawing is as wide as the aircraft is long (the chosen variant or, when the model is chosen, its representative variant).
Figure by figure
Each bar is measured against the largest in the comparison; the crown marks the leader.
How far it goes
Each shaded area is what it could reach non-stop from the chosen city. Filled dots are cities within reach of at least one.
Nominal range with a typical passenger load, measured in a straight line over the sphere (great-circle route). In practice every flight follows airways, carries fuel reserves and depends on wind, payload and runway.
Lifeline
From each model's first flight to the end of its production.
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Figures for each variant (and, when the model is chosen, for its most representative variant), taken from manufacturers' published specifications and standard aviation references: every configuration changes them somewhat. A specific aircraft takes its variant's figures when its designation identifies it unambiguously, plus the data in its own record.