Originally completed on June 9th, 1933, it was sold to Charles Knox and Robert Tyce, owners of K-T Flying Service Ltd of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii in 1938. In the early morning of December 7th, 1941, Bob Tyce was flying it when set upon by two Japanese fighters. Tyce managed to evade the fighters and landed safely at John Rogers Airport (now Honolulu International), only to be killed by strafing Japanese Zero fighters while standing on the airfield next to his plane, making him the first civilian casualty of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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