This plane was originally built as a C-47B and delivered to the USAAF as 43-48859 and later served with the Armée de l'air and South Vietnamese AF as 348859. A period of storage at MASDC followed from 1968 until 1992 but in February 1998 it was ferried to Oshkosh (KOSH) as N40386 for the turboprop conversion. After a short lease to the USAF, the registration N40386 was cancelled and the plane became C-GEAJ in August 2007. It has since survived two crashes, one in Antartica and a collision with a snowplough in Ontario, and is still going strong.

One of two Basler BT-67 aircraft in the White Desert fleet which is used for flying in the interior of Antarctica.