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| In Modern Air Transport colors at San Diego in February 1962 (Duane Kasulka via Stephen Miller) | Disassembled at Asuncion, Paraguay and awaiting shipment to Brazil in April 2000 (Jim Newton) | On display at the TAM Museum in Sao Carlos, Brazil on January 10, 2007 (Wesley Minuano) |
- Final registration - N86533
- Delivered KLM as L049 PH-TAX June 1946 but remained at Burbank for additional mods
- Re-registered PH-TDA and delivered KLM "Arnhem" September 1946
- Traded to Lockheed for L749A's June 1950
- To Capital Airlines as N86533 "Capitaliner Atlantan" August 1950
- Retired by Capital and stored by December 1960
- To Modern Air Transport September 1961
- To Rymar of Montevideo June 1965 (still registered N86533)
- Leased to International Caribbean Corp August 1965
- Impounded for smuggling at PG Stroessner Airport, Asuncion, Paraguay September 1965
- Stored at airport until April 1975 when it was painted in an overall yellow color scheme and put on display
- Disassembled and transported to Sao Carlos, Brazil in 2000 for display at TAM's "Brazilian Wings of a Dream Museum"
- Arrived at museum on December 13, 2000 after a thirty-day trip by road from Asuncion on six flat bed trucks
- Aircraft had been vandalized in Asuncion and parts were stolen at the border, including the prop spinners
- Assembled and back on undercarriage by November 2001
- To be painted in 1950's era Panair do Brasil color scheme in TAM's new paint facility at São Carlos
- Inauguration of museum scheduled for November 11/12, 2006, the 100th anniversary of Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont's first flight
- On display inside the museum in Panair do Brasil colors and false registration PP-PDD by November 2006
- Museum name changed to Museu TAM
- On January 29, 2016 TAM announced that the museum would be ceasing operations due to budget concerns
- Noted at museum in July 2022
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