- Current registration - N422NA
- Delivered to USAF January 1949 as C-121A 48-613
- Flew the Westover AFB-Rhein-Main route in support of the Berlin Airlift
- Converted to a VC-121A in 1950
- Was the first VC-121A fitted with APS-10 weather radar
- Personal aircraft of General MacArthur from September 1950 to April 1951 and named "Bataan"
- Personal aircraft of General Ridgeway from 1952 to 1953
- Transferred to HQ, Pacific Air Command as VIP transport from 1953 to late 1965 when it was declared surplus by the USAF
- Flown to Davis Monthan AFB in January 1966 for storage
- To NASA June 1966 for use by the Goddard Space Center, Greenbelt, MD as NASA422
- NASA stripped out the VIP interior and installed instrumentation for use on the Apollo space program
- Registered N422NA June 1969
- Retired by NASA 1969 and flown to the US Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker on March 10, 1970
- Declared surplus by the Army and sold to the Planes of Fame Museum in mid-1992
- Made airworthy at Fort Rucker and ferried to Dothan, AL June 1993 for additional restoration
- Flown to Addison, TX May 1994 for restoration of the interior
- Flown to Chino, CA December 1994 and to The Planes of Fame Museum Annex in Valle, AZ early 1995
- On display at the museum as 48-613 "Bataan" with interior restored to how it was during service with General MacArthur
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