Delivered to Braniff Airways as N5903 in 1956. Sold in 1969. To T&G Aviation in 1976 and converted to a firebomber. Crashed after takeoff from Dakar, Senegal in 1986.

Delivered to Braniff in November 1956, N5903 was bought by Club America Travel Club in November 1969. Put to work by T & G Aviation in 1976, the aircraft is pictured undergoing regular maintence standing by for the 1982 fire season in Washington state. The aircraft was lost on October 9, 1986 at Dakar, Senegal. Taking off to spray for locusts, a fire warning for number 4 engine came on. Shutting the engine down and feathering the propeller, the aircraft lost altitude and ditched in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast.

Later displayed at Yeovilton painted as Sea Gladiator N2276, and moved to Duxford on 1 December 1994. It was registered as G-GLAD on 5 January 1995 and was restored to flying condition over many years, taking its first post-restoration flight on 10 July 2008.

Just retired from service, and parked with the rest of Braniff's DC-7s on the east side of the field. This aircraft was destroyed in a crash at Dakar, Senegal in October of 1986.

Ex Braniff, crashed at Dakar, Senegal on October 9, 1986.

Former Braniff DC-7C at JFK's North Passenger Terminal