Delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force, February 18, 1955, 3698 was sold via Crown Assets Disposal Corporation in 1977 after two years of storage. Registered C-GOFF to the Province of Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources. Sold again in 1986 to Thousand Lakes Airways, the aircraft moved to Ignace Airways in 1990. Last operator was Huron Air & Outfitters from 1998, it was converted to a Walter powered DHC-3T/M601 Turbo Otter during the winter of 2002. Taking off from a strip near Jellicoe, ON , the aircraft crashed onto frozen Blackwater Lake and broke through the ice inverted.