Built in 1943 as USAAF C-47A 42-108821 c/n 12058 but transferred to the US Navy as R4D-5 BuNo 17119. In 1952 it was rebuilt as an R4D-8 (C-117D from 1962) "Super DC-3" with a the new c/n 43378, and retired to the MASDC "Boneyard" at Tucson in 1976. It was registered N886M to the Lee County Health Dept. in 1978 and exported to the Dominican Republic as HI-477, later HI-477CA, in 1986. In April 1989 it was seized by US Customs at Isla Grande Airport, San Juan, PR., and was damaged there by Hurricane Hugo in September that year; its derelict remains were last reported there in 2003.