On display at the Royal Thai Air Force Museum.

Ex 54-0674 USAF

Ex USAF / AFRES as 54-0581

ex "Ranch Hand". To MASDC 01JUL70. Returned to service, noted with 356 TAS / 302 TAW AFRES JUL76. To MASDC as CP065 17NOV81

The aircraft entered service with the USAF around 1954, retired in August 1982 when it was flown to AMARC (inventory number CP0084). To a private owner in February 1986 as N123K. Based at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Texas from November 1987 until 1990. In March 1993, the aircraft was issued a CoA. Withdrawn from use by 1996 and by 2007 placed in open storage at Deer Valley. At some point between 2001 and 2003, the markings and serial were applied and it was used for electronic sensor trials. Finally to a new owner in Alaska, last based at Fairbanks (after 2015). CoA issued in January 2017.

Stroukoff fitted this aircraft with their "Pantobase" landing gear system, which permitted landing on any reasonably flat surface: land, water or snow. Trials were successful and the YC-123E was further developed into the YC-134.
This particular aircraft is widely reported as ex Fairchild-built C-123B 54-554 (c/n 20003), but that seems unlikely because it still has the original Chase tail with rounded tip and no dorsal fin. It is almost certainly one of the uncompleted Chase-built C-123Bs 52-1628 to 52-1631, or the rebuilt YC-123D 53-8068.