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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:45309
    Last Civil Registration:EC-ATR
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7C cn 45309 cr EC-ATR
    Latest Owner or Location:Spantax SA

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DC-7C.

    10 March 1958

    To IALCO-Bell Inc with new c/r N8298H.

    To Ialco Bel Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N8298H.

    11 March 1958

    To Sabena with new c/r OO-CFH.

    13 March 1958

    Civil registration, N8298H, cancelled.

    August 1960

    To Sabena with new c/r OO-SFH.

    5 April 1963

    To Spantax SA with new c/r EC-WTR.

    1 May 1963

    To Spantax SA with new c/r EC-ATR.

    3 August 1968


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1968 photo at London Gatwick - Originally built for Belgiums national airline SABENA in 1958, this Douglas DC-7C is here with Spantax on a charter to some Spanish sun spot

    15 January 1977

    Withdrawn from use.
    Madrid.

    Withdrawn from use.

    1979

    WFU and used as a restaurant near Mas Palomas, Gran Canaria.
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Spanish Register of Civil Aircraft Since 1920 by Jose Ramon Valero
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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