imported back into the US as N8WJ, later N12355

ex Western and Fuerza Aerea de Chile (photographer not known)

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-72180 in 1944. Registered as NC41895 then to Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA) as LV-ABO in 1946. To Faucett as OB-PBC-248 in 1950. Reregistered as OB-R-248 in 1964. To Fri Reyes as CP-1653 in 1981. Damaged beyond repair on takeoff as La Paz in 1988 and stored.

Ex 53-3496. Last operational unit was the Air Defence Weapons Centre at Tyndall FLA. Withdrawn to MASDC in February 1975 and departed to Bolivia in July 1978. Withdrawn by the late 1980s and scrapped circa 2009. Famous for operating the last two commercially operated B-17s, Frigorifico Reyes became the largest of the meat hauling companies flying out of La Paz in the 1970s and 1980s, eight Convairs were acquired as well as a numbers of DC4s and DC6s.