Delivered to the US Navy as R4Y-1 140999 in 1955. Redesignated as a C-131F in 1962. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1984. Left in 1994 and registered as N14099, then P4-SSG in 1998 and N8277Q in 1999. Damaged beyond repair at Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in 2011 when it ran off the runway and went through the airport fence while making an emergency landing.

Before the start of its career flying fish & shrimps in the Caribbean

This Convair was still painted in the colours of Venezuelan company Standard Seafood / Super Shrimp for which it flew, with the Aruban registration P4-SSG, between May 1998 and April 1999. After its Venezuelan adventure the aircraft was taken over by Kestrel and registered as N-8277Q (which was never corrected to N8277Q) as such it flew cargo throughout the Caribbean and Florida. Unfortunatly it was damaged beyond repair after an emergency landing at Saint Thomas on 17 January 2011.

This operational Convair was on the register of Aruba from May 1998 until April 1999, registered to Super Shrimp Group Flight Department, with owner quoted as Standard Seafood de Venezuela C.A. Basically it was flying fish around the Caribbean. Standard Seafood also had Cessna 208 P4-SSL on the register of Aruba. The SS logo on the fuselage could be that of Super Shrimp or Standard Seafood, and the cartoon on the tail appears to be a shrimp in a Superman cape. Ex BuNo 140999, and later operating as N8277Q.