Built under USAAF contract as 43-49417 and delivered new to USN with Bureau Number 50806. Redesignated C-47J in 1962. Transferred to the US Army Materiel Command (insignia on nose) in May 1967 still using BuNo. 50806. The a/c was assigned by AMC to the Army Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center at Corpus Christi, TX.