This aircraft was sold to Argentina in April 1995 as LV-WLV but returned to the US register as N856MA in May 1997. Aviation Safety Network reports that on 15th May 2003 it was destroyed in unknown circumstances in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it was cancelled from the US register on 25th August 2003.

This registration was cancelled on 21st November 2012 due to the expiration of the aircraft's Registration Certificate.

A genuine pre-WWII civilian DC-3 delivered to TWA in April 1939 as NC14931 and served with them until February 1952. It subsequently passed thought the hands of numerous operators and was last active flying out of Laredo, TX., as XA-KTB with Aero JBR, but had been withdrawn and stored by 2008. The deteriorating aircraft was acquired by the Fourrier Foundation in 2018 and moved from Laredo to San Antonio, TX., where they planned to restored it to airworthiness and use it for humanitarian relief flights in South America and Africa, although there have been no recent reports of their progress.

The aircraft is a Franklin Gander conversion with 260hp IO-470 Continental engines. It spent many years in Alaska as N28676 & N85U where it was wrecked/sunk several times. It has a modified nose cap, G-44A bow, no 2nd step aft, McKinnon retractable floats and a fairing behind the main wheel wells. It was re-registered N144SL in October 2018 and sold to a new owner in New Zealand and was last noted dismantled at Ardmore Airport, North Island, awaiting restoration in March 2022. (Credit: Bill O Bailey for much of the above).

Later restored to standard tricycle undercarriage configuration, but cancelled from the USCAR on 30th May 2018 due to the expiration of the aircraft's registration certificate.

Last flew 6 July 2022 and parked at FXE since then.

Parked sans paint since some time in 2023.

Still current on the USCAR in 2025 but looks unlikely to fly again.

Del 02 Sep 1972 Former Mesa Petroleum as N258GL, N64MP, N64MR,Rockford Motors, The Connerty Group as N276LE, GMD Aviation as N188BC,GMD Aviation American Aircraft Sales International, G. M. Miller & Company as N778JC, G. M. Miller & Company ,2001 Mayflower, Freebird 1 as N778GM