Modified as a crop duster and later as a fire fighting Air Tanker with a T-6 engine. Was officially registered to Dale P. Newton (Talent, OR) from June 1981 until cancelled in November 2012. Preserved at the Pima Air Museum since 1990. According to them the U.S. Forest Service loaned the aircraft to the museum as part of their program to preserve historic fire-fighting aircraft. The museum purchased the aircraft in 2015.