The USCG operated forty Sikorsky HH-3F Pelicans from 1967 (and converted three ex-USAF HH-3Es in 1989) until they were replaced by the Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk in the 1990s. Based out of Coast Guard Air Station Astoria in Oregon, this one went to AMARC March 12, 1992.

Later acquired by the Erickson Aircraft Collection.

Reregistered TI-AQQ in 1979

Built as a C-53. Participated in Operation Market Garden in September 1944 as a glider tug. Postwar converted to a DC-3A with an airstair passenger door on the starboard side of the cabin. Seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1982. To the USAF Museum and loaned to the Aerospace Museum of California at Sacramento. Displayed in WW2 invasion stripes but retains the civil airstair door.

Nose wheel removed until parking fees were paid. Aircraft scrapped