Zantop Air Transport Douglas DC-7B(F)
N759Z
(c/n 45233)
Zantop acquired 15 ex
American Airlines DC-7Bs, all of which had already been converted to
DC-7BF freighter versions by the
time Zantop got them. N759Z was the former N336AA,
and'
had
originally been delivered to American as 'Flagship Utah' in June of
1957. Bob Garrard's
shot above was taken at
Indianapolis International in March 1967 by which time Zantop had been
taken over by Universal. It was later sold to California
Airmotive and leased to American World
Airlines before being broken up at
Beirut, Lebanon in 1985.