Delivered to KLM as PH-DSI 14-Jul-1957, converted to DC-7F August 1962. To Aer Turas as EI-ATV 31-Mar-1969 and sold to Compagnie Gabonaise d'Affrêtements Aériens 27-May-1969 as TR-LNZ. This was a front for Jack Malloch's sanctions busting activites to Biafra and Rhodesia. During 1979 used by the Rhodesian AF as 7230 in cross-border raids, returning to Affretair as VP-YTY, July 1980. Sold to La Mancha Aire July 1982 as N103LM, to Million Air May 1983, Trans Air Link in February 1985 as N8699TA. To Filair in the DRC in 1995, allegedly used to supply UNITA forces in Angola, scrapped at Kinshasa around 2010. Seen here at Harare with DC-7CF TR-LNY of Air Gabon Cargo (another Malloch front) in the background. Photographer unknown

Delivered to KLM as PH-DSI 14-Jul-1957, converted to DC-7F August 1962. To Aer Turas as EI-ATV 31-Mar-1969 and sold to Compagnie Gabonaise d'Affrêtements Aériens 27-May-1969 as TR-LNZ. This was a front for Jack Malloch's sanctions busting activites to Biafra and Rhodesia. During 1979 used by the Rhodesian AF as 7230 in cross-border raids, returning to Affretair as VP-YTY, July 1980. Sold to La Mancha Aire July 1982 as N103LM, to Million Air May 1983, Trans Air Link in February 1985 as N8699TA. To Filair in the DRC in 1995, allegedly used to supply UNITA forces in Angola, scrapped at Kinshasa around 2010. Seen here at Recife during the ferry flight to Miami after La Mancha took ownership of the Seven Seas. Photographer unknown

Delivered to KLM as PH-DSI 14-Jul-1957, converted to DC-7F August 1962. To Aer Turas as EI-ATV 31-Mar-1969 and sold to Compagnie Gabonaise d'Affrêtements Aériens 27-May-1969 as TR-LNZ. This was a front for Jack Malloch's sanctions busting activites to Biafra and Rhodesia. During 1979 used by the Rhodesian AF as 7230 in cross-border raids, returning to Affretair as VP-YTY, July 1980. Sold to La Mancha Aire July 1982 as N103LM, to Million Air May 1983, Trans Air Link in February 1985 as N8699TA. To Filair in the DRC in 1995, allegedly used to supply UNITA forces in Angola, scrapped at Kinshasa around 2010. Seen here at Harare immediately before the Affretair titles were removed before the ferry flight to Miami, FL. Photographer unknown

Work is under way to strip the airframe of useful parts, prior to scrapping later in 1992.

Picture could have been taken at Maastricht (NL), but this needs confirmation. Photographer unknown

Ran off the runway following a no. 4 engine failure on take-off at Santo Domingo-Las Americas Airport

Delivered to KLM as PH-DSI in July 1957 it was converted as a DC-7F in August 1962. In 1969 it was sold to Aer Turas as EI-ATV but quickly passed to Affretair as TR-LNZ. In 1979 it was leased to the Rhodesian AF as serial 7230 returning to Affretair, this time as VP-YTY, in 1980. In 1982 it was placed on the US register as N103LM, operating for La Mancha Aire, JBM & Sons and Million Air before acquired by Trans Air Link in February 1985. It was leased in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1998; little is known of its DRC time except that it was reportedly scrapped at Kinshasa in 2010.

Found this in our family album, picture taken by my father.

This immaculate DC-7C freighter was unfortunately damaged beyond repair at Santo Domingo on 18 February 1993, when an engine failed on take-off. This was all the more unfortunate as the aircraft had been reactivated by T & G Aviation in 1989 after 22 years in use for technical instruction at the Alexandria Vocational School in Minnesota. Photographer not known.

Delivered to Sabena as DC-7C OO-SFB in 1956. Leased to Persian Air Services as EP-AEP in 1961 and returned as OO-SFB in 1962. Converted to a DC-7C(F) in 1963. To Spantax as EC-BSP in 1969 then to Talingo Airlines as HP-868 in 1978, T&G Aviation as N3775U in 1980, Antilles Air Cargo in 1991 and Aerochago Airlines HI-619SP in 1992. Crashed into the sea off Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1992.

in April 1992 to Aerochago as HI-619SP - written off November 1992 near Dania Beach (FL), after an engine failure shortly after take off from Fort Lauderdale (photographer not known)

Delivered to BOAC as G-AOII in 1957. Converted to a freighter in 1960. To SAS as OY-KNE in 1965 then to Universal Airlines as N9000T in 1967 and Air Caribbean Transport as 6Y-JFS in 1968. Reregistered back to N9000T in 1970 and used by a number of operators. Derelict at Miami by 1990 and scrapped in 1998.

Ex PH-DSE with KLM. Became TR-LQC in August 1971, and broken up at Harare, Rhodesia in 1973