DC-7 at IKEA in Hicksville!!
In the mid 70's, there was a DC-7 parked in the lot of what is now IKEA in Hicksville. It was used as a stereo store, and was only there for a few months before it was removed.
This was way before NEWS 12 and YOU TUBE, but I remember at the time there was an article in Newsday with a picture. I tried googling the information but nothing comes up about it.
If anyone has a picture of it I thnk it would make a great post. Somewhere in my Library I have a book that refers to the aircraft and gives its registration, I have to find it!!
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Found it!!!
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0116369
N839D
Built 2-18-58 Eastern Airlines
Sold 2-13-66 California Airmotive
Leased 67 Society of Sky Roamers
B/U 7-30-74 (LaGuardia)
Remarks: Seen in Hicksville, NY '75, "Fly Buy Nite Audio", Externally complete w no Engines
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Wow that is totally wild! I had no idea it was ever there. I wonder what ever happened to it?
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I certainly remember that! I never heard what happened to it. I assume it was scrapped when the store closed or the mall expanded.
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I remember watching as she was broken up in the parking lot at the mall. My dad and I both worked for Eastern at the time. I think this was the 7 that sat at LGA without a rudder for quite a long time. I heard the rudder was removed to make her unairworthy due to unpaid bills. Sad end to a real beauty.
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It should be noted that the parking lot that this view is taken from is now covered by the Ikea store (from the right up to about where the car in the foreground is, and the plane is sitting where the Ikea car loading docks are and where the parking garage is. This view is a SE direction. The yellow building was Nathan's Famous (now On The Border Mexican restaurant), the red building in the distance is Sears Automotive (before the re-facing in the late '80's/ early '90's) and the building at the plane's tail was U.S. General tools (now removed for the parking garage).