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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:45351
    Last Civil Registration:N4887C
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7B cn 45351 cr N4887C
    Latest Owner or Location:Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a DC-7B.

    25 November 1957

    To Delta Air Lines with new c/r N4887C.
    Operated with markings: 717

    31 March 1968

    To BMR Aviation keeping c/r N4887C.

    May 1968

    To Emerald Shillelagh Travel Club keeping c/r N4887C.

    July 1972

    To C. M. Belew keeping c/r N4887C.

    To International Air Response, Inc keeping c/r N4887C.

    May 1973

    Leased to Suns Travel Club.

    1 May 1980

    To T and G Aviation Inc, Chandler, AZ keeping c/r N4887C.

    3 June 1980

    To International Air Response Inc, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N4887C.

    By 5 October 1984

    Operated as fire service #33.

    5 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: At Lancaster Fox Field


    Photographer: Alex Waning APVW aviation DVDs

    27 August 1986

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR4887C (DC-7B, 45351) issued.

    Based at International Air Response Inc, Coolidge Municipal Airport, Coolidge, AZ.
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    4 August 1997


    Photographer: Unknown

    2 May 2000


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Palmer, Alaska

    8 August 2011

    To International Air Response Inc, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N4887C.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    7 December 2013


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy

    Withdrawn from use.

    16 July 2019

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to IAR facility at KIWA.

    20 December 2019

    To Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum DBA, Atlanta, GA with new c/r N4887C.

    2019

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta, GA.
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    Credits
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    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Chris Kennedy
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