Ordered by the US Navy as PF-1A 124297. Delivered to the US Air Force as SA-16A 49-074 in 1950. To the Brazilian Air Force as S-16 6530 in 1958. Withdrawn from use at São Paulo-Marte in 1980. Registered as PP-ZAS by 1988 then N97HU in 1994 and XB-JHH in 2004. Made a forced landing on the sea at Playa de la Ventanilla, near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Mexico in 2004 while being pursued by the Mexican military on a drug running flight. Abandoned on the beach and covered by sand by 2008.

Photographer unknown - ex 49-074

Flying at the 1999 Chino show. It's history is well documented by David Montgomery in his photo on this site.

Originally delivered to the USAF as 49-074 in 1950. Transferred to the Brazilian Air Force in 1958 as 6530. Withdrawn in 1980 and sold in 1984, Registered as PP-ZAS in 1991. Became N97HU in 1994, and ferried to Canada for restoration in March 1996. First post-restoration flight in early 1997. Sold in Mexico in 2004 as XB-JHH. On 10 August of that year forced down by the Mexican authorities on a suspected drug-running flight. Beached and abandoned on the Mexican coast at Playa de la Ventanilla, near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Subsequent to the removal of its engines, the airframe was left derelict and over the years sank slowly into the sand.