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Douglas DC-7
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<p>The Douglas DC-7 is a retired American transport aircraft built by the <a href="/facts/Douglas_Aircraft_Company/vkkFDEhB">Douglas Aircraft Company</a> from 1953 to 1958. A derivative of the <a href="/facts/Douglas_DC-6/a3SdMS9E">DC-6</a>, it was the last major piston engine-powered transport made by Douglas, being developed shortly after the earliest jet airliner—the <a href="/facts/De_Havilland_Comet/4QKGYkFq">de Havilland Comet</a>—entered service and only a few years before the jet-powered <a href="/facts/Douglas_DC-8/V4E0Jqov">Douglas DC-8</a> first flew in 1958. Larger numbers of both DC-7B and DC-7C variants were also built. </p><p>Unlike other far more successful propeller-driven Douglas aircraft, such as the <a href="/facts/Douglas_DC-3/NWdzDB2u">DC-3</a> and DC-6, no examples of the DC-7 remain in service as of 2020. </p>