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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:44701
    Last Civil Registration:N51701
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a DC-7B.

    18 July 1955

    To Pan American Grace Airways with new c/r N51701.

    1 December 1964

    To Argonaut keeping c/r N51701.

    28 November 1972

    To Maricopa Dust and Spray keeping c/r N51701.

    12 July 1973

    To Air Tankers Inc keeping c/r N51701.

    3 May 1974

    Certificate of airworthiness for N51701 (DC-7B, 44701) issued.

    To United States Forest Services keeping c/r N51701.

    3 June 1980

    To T and G Aviation Inc, Chandler, AZ keeping c/r N51701.

    Operated as fire service #31.

    11 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: Circa 1984 photo at Chandler Memorial, Arizona

    October 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler-Memorial, AZ

    1993

    Based at Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    19 May 2015

    Civil registration, N51701, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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