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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:45547
    Last Civil Registration:PH-DSO
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7C cn 45547 cr PH-DSO
    Latest Owner or Location:Stansted Fire Service Training School

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DC-7C.

    28 October 1958

    To KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines with new c/r PH-DSO.
    Operated with markings: Bering Zee

    1 March 1964

    To Martins Air Charter keeping c/r PH-DSO.

    1967

    To Martinair Holland keeping c/r PH-DSO.

    1 October 1968

    To Trans World Leasing.

    After 1 October 1968

    Withdrawn from use.
    Retired at Stansted, UK, soon after it was acquired by Trans World.

    19 December 1974


    Photographer: Paul J. Hooper.
    Notes: Photographed at Stansted/London.

    4 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This former Martinair DC-7C was seen at Stansted in the Summer of 1976.

    13 August 1978


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1978 photo of a Douglas Dc-7 on the Stansted Fire dump

    Scrapped.

    To Stansted Fire Service Training School.
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    1980

    Scrapped.
    Broken up Stansted.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Piston Engine Airliner Production List (2007) by A.B. Eastwood and J. Roach
    Internet Sources
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     Terry Fletcher
    T J Johansen
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