Construction completed - December 2, 1952

Delivered to Hawaiian Airlines Inc - becoming N5507K - December 12, 1952

Leased to Ansett Airways - November 16, 1956 to July 4, 1957

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BZG - November 7, 1956

Departed Honolulu on delivery flight to Melbourne - November 11, 1956

Entered Ansett Airways service - in full Hawaiian Airlines colors & titles - November 16, 1956

Withdrawn from service - June 26, 1957

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Honolulu - June 27, 1957

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - July 4, 1957

Registered N5507K to Hawaiian Airlines - July 24, 1957

Sold to General Motors Corp (Allison Division) - January 1, 1959

Converted to CV-580 prototype with Allison 501-D13 engines and first flown as such - January 19, 1960

Transferred to General Motors Transport Section - September 2, 1961

Reregistered N5127H - September 11, 1970

Sold to Servicio Aereos Honduras SA (SAHSA) - becoming HR-SAY - May 19, 1971

Sold to Lineas Aereas Unidas SA, Mexico - February 1978

Reregistered XA-IAG - May 31, 1979

Badly damaged at Puerto Escondita, Oaxaca, Mexico - March 9, 1979

Sold to Jay Dee Aircraft Supply Co - becoming N5599J - February 19, 1980

Leased to Sin-Asia Air Services (Singapore) - June 24, 1980

Sold to Pemberthy Lumber Co, Los Angeles - October 10, 1980

Leased to Pacific National Airways Inc - 1981

Returned to lessor when Pacific National ceased operations

Leased to Prinair - becoming N771PR - June 1982

Repossessed by Pemberthy Lumber - and reregistered N5599J - June 1985

Withdrawn from use and stored at Gainesville, Florida - August 10, 1986

Sold to Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter - 1990

Due to extensive corrosion aircraft was scrapped - parts being used in the prototype CV-5800

VH-BZG. Hawaiian Airlines - in the full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, November 1956.

VH-BZG. Hawaiian Airlines - in the full livery at Launceston Airport, January 1957.

VH-BZG. Hawaiian Airlines - in the full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, January 1957.