This L-5 was TOC by the USAAF in March 1944. A month later it was on a convoy bound for the UK and assigned to the the 8th Air Force. After WWII it was used in Germany, as a liason/support plane for the US Army. It was donated to the Italian AF and used as a basic trainer with the military serial number 52882 an finished its active life at Lucca in June 1980. In April 1991 it was found wrecked without an engine, propeller, landing gear, instruments, some structural parts, and subject to fire damage. It was restored by GAVS Turin in 1992-94 in this D-Day scheme and came to Volandia in 2013.

After the war it flew as I-AEEL