By: SierraEchoFred - 11th February 2007 at 00:20
Shame. This DC-7C should have been preserved in a museum. In the late 1968-69 it was used by ARCO (Bermuda) in the Biafra airlift as D-ABAC and VR-BCW.
ARCO (Bermuda) was a company conected to the famus Hank Warton. After been kicked out from the Biafra run Warton and ARCO’s DC-7s stood parked at Basle. When the Red Cross airlift to Biafra was closed down in the summer of 1969 former crews flying for Swedecross – many in fact earlier employed by ARCO – joined ARCO and ops were restarted. Bases were Basle and Stockholm/Bromma. Half a dozen flight were made to El Salvador and Honduras in conection to the soccer war that summer…
Ops continued until 1971 when Hank Warton decided to get out of Europe.
Pix of VR-BCW:
By: N.P.Vibert - 10th February 2007 at 22:52
Hope some of those bits find a good home.
By: flyingcloggie - 10th February 2007 at 18:45
Was in geneva in the beginning in october with the cat. The 7 was still there, took a few shots of it.
What I’ve understand is that it was offerd to the Aviodrome/Aviodome but the transport was to expencive.
By: Tillerman - 10th February 2007 at 17:45
Not a DC-7 but a -6. Painful to watch nevertheless…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAQSsP-Ngw
Tillerman
By: Stratofreighter - 21st November 2006 at 14:48
Sad as it is it was inevitable notice the pallets under the centre section structural problems? Was anything saved though as the engines and props looked ok?
Take a look at http://www.dpts.org/sevenseas.html .
This is being stated: “A team of mechanics has started to dismantle some vital parts of the DC-7 such as all sixteen blades, all four engines, doors and various other pieces that my help other Douglas aircraft remain airworthy. Some other parts will be sold to finance the Super Constellation project which also has its roots in Geneva. Once all parting out is over, the DC-7 will serve for a final exercise during which most of the aircraft will be cut into pieces. After that everything will be over.”
This page also gives a good impression of how the “Seven Seas” looked like inside. This former KLM-owned Biafra veteran might even have been the base of a restoration project, even though it would have required a MASSIVE effort and lots of money…
What I find criminal is that the nose wasn’t saved in one piece… Surely separating the cockpitwindows -and roof from the rest of the nose (and that includes the dashboard!) wasn’t necessary ??
Most of the gauges/meters were gone, but the yokes, rudder pedals, throttle-quadrants and most switches/knobs including the placards weren’t!
By: Peter - 21st November 2006 at 14:12
Sad as it is it was inevitable notice the pallets under the centre section structural problems? Was anything saved though as the engines and props looked ok?
By: wessex boy - 21st November 2006 at 13:50
Now that’s a shame 😡
By: David Burke - 21st November 2006 at 13:48
Love DC-7’s – if only some kind benefactor could find the money to buy the former B.O.A.C machine sat in Spain and bring her to the U.K .
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November 21, 2006 at 1:13 pm