Photographed at Coast Guard Air Station Miami. The aircraft was built as USAF MC-131A Samaritan 52-5785 and served until retired to the MASDC "Boneyard" at Tucson in February 1975. In April 1976 it was transferred to the USCG and re-designated HC-131A but only served until February 1982 when it was again retired to MASDC. It was civilianised as N27232 in May 1982 but nothing of its subsequent history could be traced, and the registration was cancelled in November 2012.

Originally USAF C-131 52-5785 this Convair was transferred to the US Coast Guard in 1976. Pictured in the twilight of it's military service, the aircraft was sold as N27232 in May 1982.

Joining the USCG in 7.76 after retirement by the USAF (52-5785), this Convair returned to DM AFB in 10.81 and was sold to Florida Aircraft Leasing as N27232 in 5.82, but her fate after that goes unrecorded