Built as a SD-360 for lease to Air UK and delivered December 14, 1984 as G-BLPV. Later flying with Loganair and City Flyer Express. Returned to Short Brothers in November 1993, the aircraft was converted to a C-23B with the replacement of the rear fuselage with a new build SD-330 tail. Delivered to US Department of the Army as 93-1328 October 1995. The United States Forest Service bought the aircraft April 17, 2014.