This early Kawasaki-Vertol was registered to Kawasaki Heavy Industries as JA9509 on 6 Jun 1969 and based at their Gifu factory. It was registered to Airlift on 7 Dec 1990, which changed its name to Kawasaki Helicopter Systems in Oct 1992. The helicopter was cancelled from the Japanese register on export to the USA on 8 Feb 2006, but no subsequent N registration is known.