- Final registration - HI-328
- Delivered to USAF February 1949 as C-121A 48-615
- Flew the Westover AFB-Rhein-Main route in support of the Berlin Airlift
- Converted to a VC-121A in ~1950
- To HQ SHAPE 1953 and based at Paris-Orly
- To USAF Europe as VIP transport 1962
- Retired by USAF and flown to Davis Monthan AFB for storage July 1968
- One of five VC-121A's sold to Christler Flying Service at DoD auction on May 5, 1970
- Registered N9466 on July 10, 1970 and converted to an agricultural sprayer
- Leased for the filming of "MacArthur" in 1976 and painted in "SCAP" markings
- "SCAP" markings still present when sold to Sea Hound Intl in January 1979 for conversion to a freighter
- To Argo SA as HI-328 May 1979
- Crashed on short final to Harry Truman Airport, St. Thomas, VI on October 26, 1981
- Wreckage sank in about 35-40 feet of water 150 feet off the coast the next day
- Technically a "survivor"
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