Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company between 1953 and 1958, the DC-7 was a derivative of the DC-6, made to fly coast-to-coast across the US in as little as eight hours. The DC-7 was the last piston-engine powered plane built by Douglas, and no examples of the aircraft are still flying today.
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