Actually L-17A 47-1347 which served the 53rd FW, Pennsylvania ANG at Middletown PA as a liaison aircraft. Flown to the UASFM in April 1986 and painted as 48-928, a Ryan-built L-17B used by the Air Force ROTC program at Bradley University, IL in 1959 then the Chanute AFB Aero Club as N7635B until it crashed in the Seven Mountains in November 1963

The American military used the L-17 from the late 1940s to the 1960s as liason, reconnaisance, light cargo and FAC aircraft. This aircraft carries the scheme used by a L-17B of the AF ROTC program at Bradley University, Preoria, IL in early 1959. She is now on display at the National Museum of the USAF and, note, definately carries the stencilled serial 48-928A under the cockpit canopy.