No this is not the one,....however this one does have a very interesting history to it. I recently aquired this from a man needing to sell it to pay for surgery for his search and rescue dog. It was given to his wife by her grandfather, Edgar N. Eisenhower brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower; That, I have documentation on. I want to see if I can trace it back to Dwight D. Eisenhower. As supreme allied commander during WW II he had a C-54 (military version of the DC-7) at his disposal to take him wherever he needed to go. His brother Edgar was a corporate lawer in Tacoma WA and not directly involve with the aviation community, I thought it somewhat odd that a model airplane be given to a woman as a gift, it was given to her in the 1950's, she would have been in her early 20's (?), although Seattle is BIG aviation community, it is not the home of Douglas, so I thought I would do a little research on the plane to see if it possibly was given to President Eisenhower as a presentaion model during the war or shortly there after.
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