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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
    Last Military Serial:45367 ALA
    Construction Number:45367
    Last Civil Registration:N90251
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-7C sn 45367 ALA cn 45367...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooks Fuel / Don Brooks, Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DC-7C.

    6 January 1958

    To Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux with new c/r F-BIAQ.

    24 January 1958

    To Union de Transports Aeriens (UTA), Villepinte, Aeroport de Paris keeping c/r F-BIAQ.
    Based at Paris-le Bourget.

    October 1961

    Leased to Madair.

    13 February 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 45367 and operated with these markings: 85-CB.
    Used Callsign F-ZBCB.

    20 June 1976


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 45367/CB - DC-7C ARMOR - French Air Force / Centre dEssais en Vol - Bretigny-sur-Orge

    December 1978

    To GCA Inc with new c/r N90251.

    June 1982

    To Commercial Leasing keeping c/r N90251.

    August 1986

    To T and G Aviation keeping c/r N90251.

    26 August 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N90251 (DC-7, 45367) issued.

    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler-Memorial, AZ

    14 February 1995

    To Brooks Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N90251.

    Based at Brooks Fuel/Don Brooks, Fairbanks, AK.
    View the Location Dossier

    5 May 2000


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

    Withdrawn from use.

    18 January 2018

    Civil registration, N90251, cancelled.
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