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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-7 Seven Seas / C-74 Globemaster I / C-124 Globemaster II
    Latest Model:DC-7C Seven Seas
    Construction Number:45070
    Last Civil Registration:N5902
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7C cn 45070 cr N5902
    Latest Owner or Location:Scroggins Aviation Mockup and Effects, Las Vegas, Nevada

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-7C.

    27 March 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5902 (DC-7C, 45070) issued.

    26 February 1981

    To T and G Aviation Inc, Chandler, AZ with new c/r N5902.

    11 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: Circa 1984 photo at Chandler Memorial, Arizona

    7 August 1996


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1996 Photo at Chandler Memorial AZ

    29 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With fading Fly Ports-of-Call-titles at Chandler, AZ

    Scrapped.
    The forward fuselage survived.

    2008

    To Scroggins Aviation, Las Vegas, NV.
    The forward fuselage was sold to Scroggins.
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    To Scroggins Aviation Mockup and Effects, Las Vegas, NV.
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    3 December 2014

    Civil registration, N5902, cancelled.

    19 October 2019


    Photographer: Doug Scroggins
    Notes: Sold to Scroggins Aviation in 2008. Only the forward cockpit fusleage section was sold and the rest was scrapped. It is shown here in Scroggins Aviations yard.
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