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:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0114372/M/

http://www1.airpics.com/showimg.php?imgid=52967