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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-7 Seven Seas / C-74 Globemaster I / C-124 Globemaster II
    Latest Model:DC-7B
    Construction Number:45345
    Last Civil Registration:N836D
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7B cn 45345 cr N836D
    Latest Owner or Location:Historical Flight Foundation Inc, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-7B.

    To unknown owner with c/r N836D.

    23 January 1958

    To Eastern Air Lines keeping c/r N836D.

    29 January 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N836D (DC-7B, 45345) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N88892.

    13 September 1965

    To California Automotive keeping c/r .

    1966

    To Nomads Inc keeping c/r .

    Withdrawn from use and stored at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

    May 1972

    To 20th Century Travel keeping c/r .

    From 1975 to 2007

    Withrdrawn from use and placed in storage at Minneapolis-Saint Paul Downtown Airport. It stayed there unused for 32 years, with the owners occasionally running the engines but never flying the airplane.

    30 December 1989

    To Twentieth Century Air TVL Club Inc, Las Vegas, NV with new c/r N836D.

    18 March 2004

    To Legendary Airlines, Miami, FL with new c/r N836D.

    To Opa Locka Airport, Opa Locka, FL.
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    30 December 2009

    To Historical Flight Foundation Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N836D.

    26 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2010

    26 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Port Charlotte, FL.

    26 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Port Charlotte, FL.

    26 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Port Charlotte, FL. DC-7B Cockpit.

    2 April 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    11 November 2011

    The aircraft flew from Opa Locka, FL, to Charlotte, NC, with Captain Sully Sullenberger and first officer Jeff Skiles on board as a charity flight. On landing in Charlotte, the crew and passengers toured the Miracle on the Hudson aircraft, US Air flight 1449, that landed in the Hudson in 2009. On the return flight to Florida, without Capt. Sully or Skiles on board, the aircraft lost the number 3 engine on takeoff and returned to Charlotte for an uneventful landing. The aircraft remains in Charlotte for repairs.

    To unknown owner with c/r N836D.

    2014

    At St.Maarten.

    19 November 2014

    Civil registration, N836D, cancelled.

    23 September 2017


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte NC
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