Ex - US Navy BuNo 149072. Photographed displayed outside the RAAF HQ Townsville. This aircraft was damaged during Cyclone Yasi in February 2012, and subsequently donated parts to sister-ship A89-280 which also suffered damage during that event. In February 2016 the RAAF announced that this aircraft had been gifted to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society and in August/September 2017, after it had been dismantled, it was trucked to that organisation's premises at Parkes, NSW, where it was reassembled and put on display.

Guard guardian at RAAF Townsville. Served with the RAAF from new in March 1962 to February 1977. Damaged by Cyclone Yasi in February 2012. Parts used to repair A89-280 also damaged in the same cyclone. Airframe of -272 transported to the HARS facility at Parkes, NSW in 2017.