Emirates Air Transport DC-7CF
Posted: 02 Jul 2015, 22:32
On the 21st of April, 1958, a DC-7C, reg. N297, was first built for Northwest Airlines before conversion to freighter 5 years later. Then, in 1976, after flying for 15 operators, the plane was sold to a short-lived and not-so-well-known Emirates Air Transport, it's 16th and final operator, and the only operator in the UAE to ever operate a DC-7.
It was short lived due to the fact that in October of that same year, it hit Mount Kenya on approach to Nairobi, Kenya. CFIT claimed the lives of all 4 crew on board.
The following are screenshots of a repaint I made back in 2013 by analyzing the only image of an EAT DC-7 available, and recreating the EAT logo on the tail, and the titles on the fuselage. Unfortunately, the only Arabic word visible was the word for Emirates, and I could barely make out the second and third words, so they were pretty much guesses.
In short, the livery was not totally exact, but it was the best I could do.
And for the curious, here's a picture of the real TZ-ARC
It was short lived due to the fact that in October of that same year, it hit Mount Kenya on approach to Nairobi, Kenya. CFIT claimed the lives of all 4 crew on board.
The following are screenshots of a repaint I made back in 2013 by analyzing the only image of an EAT DC-7 available, and recreating the EAT logo on the tail, and the titles on the fuselage. Unfortunately, the only Arabic word visible was the word for Emirates, and I could barely make out the second and third words, so they were pretty much guesses.
In short, the livery was not totally exact, but it was the best I could do.
And for the curious, here's a picture of the real TZ-ARC
