Originally ordered by Braniff Airways but was cancelled

Construction completed - August 8, 1953

Placed in storage - October 26, 1953

Sold to Ansett Airways - June 10, 1954

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BZD - June 21, 1954

Departed San Diego on delivery flight to Melbourne - August 4, 1954

Its routing was: Kansas City, New York, Gander, Shannon, London, Rome, Beirut, Bahrain,

Karachi, New Delhi, Calcutta, Singapore, Jakarta, Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney

Arrived in Melbourne - August 16, 1954

Entered Ansett Airways service - Essendon-Sydney-Brisbane - October 4, 1954

Leased to Butler Air Transport - operating its first Butler service - Sydney-Casino - October 3, 1958

Withdrawn from Butler service - February 1959

Sold to Beldex Corporation via Remmert Werner Inc - March 1, 1959

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to San Francisco - March 1, 1959

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - March 16, 1959

Converted to CV-440 standard with executive interior and registered N440W

Registered N1846 to Southern Ohio Railroad Co - October 31, 1962

Transferred to Mead Corp, Ohio, then to Air Transport Leasing Corp becoming N1846D

Sold to Allegheny Airlines - January 4, 1965

Converted to CV-580 standard by Pacific Airmotive Corp - January 1965

Conversion completed and reregistered N5803 - April 8, 1965

Sold to Sunny South Aircraft Service Inc - July 25, 1978

Leased to Charter Air Corp - Charter Airlines - becoming N900WC - July 25, 1978

Leased to Mackey International Airlines - May 1979

Leased to Puerto Rico International Airlines - Prinair - August 8, 1981

Sold to Prinair - November 3, 1983

Sold to Executive Car & Truck Leasing - after Prinair ceased flying - February 13, 1986

Sold to Kelowna Flightcraft - March 1990

Aircraft was not entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register

Converted to parts and scrapped - early 1990's

VH-BZD. Ansett Airways - in the original livery & titles at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, October 1954.

VH-BZD. Ansett Airways - in the original livery & titles at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, October 1954.

VH-BZD. Ansett Airways - in the original livery & titles at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, November 1954.

VH-BZD. Ansett Airways - in the original livery & titles at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, September 1954.

VH-BZD. Ansett Airways - in the original livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

VH-BZD. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the Ansett livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

VH-BZD. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the Ansett livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

N900WC. Charter Airlines- in the full livery at unknown airport, December 1978.

N900WC. Mackey - in the full livery at Miami's Opa Locka Airport, date unknown.

N900WC. Prinair - in the Mackey livery at Miami's Opa Locka Airport, November 1981.