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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-7 Seven Seas / C-74 Globemaster I / C-124 Globemaster II
    Latest Model:DC-7BF
    Construction Number:44924
    Last Civil Registration:N757Z
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7BF cn 44924 cr N757Z
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-7B.

    Converted to a DC-7BF.

    22 January 1975

    To Woltz Harry, Elyria, OH with new c/r N757Z (DC-7B, 44924).

    27 May 1976

    Civil registration, N757Z, cancelled.

    28 April 1977


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Ortner Airport Wakeman Ohio shortly after Soplata acquisition

    12 August 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: The breakdown of DC-7 at Ortners Airport by Walter Soplata

    By 1982

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
    Only the nose and pieces of the fuselage survive here.
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    1982


    Photographer: Michael Jones

    1982


    Photographer: Michael Jones

    9 August 1986


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    Circa 1991


    Photographer: Jayson Shenk

    Circa 2019

    Transported by ground.
    Transported to Mojave, CA by MotoArt.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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