Delivered to USAAF as 43-17142 19th July 1944. SOC and registered N30042 26th February 1946 for United Airlines and subsequently acquired in February 1962 by Interocean Airways as LX-IOF. Sold to Aviation Traders and delivered to them at Stansted 6th February 1964 for conversion to ATL-98 Carvair (No.17). After storage and conversion at Stansted, it was registered to British Air Ferries as G-AXAI 19th Feb.1969. It made its first flight as G-AXAI at Stansted 2nd April 1969 and was delivered to BAF at Southend later that day. Cancelled 27th Jan.1976 on sale to France as F-BVEF.

Operated by various test and experimental units, during which it flew with a Napier Naiad turboprop engine in the nose and later as G-37-1 with a Rolls Royce Tyne engine in the nose. In the latter configuration it was displayed at the 1956 Farnborough Air Show at which it made a flypast with all four Merlins shut down and feathered and powered by just the Tyne engine. It was later fitted with a radome test nose. It made its last operational flight 21 April 1961 and was SOC 3 May 1961. It was delivered to the Fire Fighting School at Stansted 27 June 1961 and was burnt there sometime in 1966/67.

Withdrawn from use in 1971. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Broke up in flight while being demonstrated to the media at Wyton, UK, on June 30, 1966. All four onboard killed. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Converted to a UP-3A in 1981 and withdrawn from use in 1993. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Delivered new to National Airlines as N33682 in April 1946. Served Starways, based at Liverpool, from September 1957 until December 1963.