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| On display in a dull green color scheme during her pre-Pepsi days on November 2, 1992 (Peter M. Garwood) | In full Pepsi colors at a children's park in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in September 1997 (Andy Martin) | This March 2005 photo shows the old girl in AeroSur colors and used as a travel agency (Michael S. Prophet) |
- Final registration - N2520B
- Delivered October 1946 to LAV as L049 YV-C-AME "Simon Bolivar"
- To Braniff Airlines August 1955 as N2520B
- Stored at Washington National Airport by August 1958
- To Trans American November 1959
- To Empire Supply Company November 1960
- Forced to land at Santa Cruz, Bolivia July 1961
- Aircraft was on a smuggling flight from Miami, FL to Uruguay with cigarettes and whiskey
- Cancelled from the USCAR in 1970
- Stored at Santa Cruz until the early 1970's when it was moved four miles to Parque Boris Banzer, a children's park
- By 1979 converted to a library at Avenida Uruguay in Santa Cruz
- Painted in Pepsi colors scheme but this had been removed by 2000, when the aircraft was natural aluminum with a white top
- Aircraft purchased by AeroSur in late 2002/early 2003 and painted in their color scheme
- Mediterraneo, a travel agency, has committed to help maintain the aircraft and provide security
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