Constructed at the San Diego plant for Trans Australia Airlines

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TAP - March 24, 1948

Registered to Australian National Airlines Commission

Construction completed - September 21, 1948

Handed over to T.A.A. - October 8, 1948

Originally named 'Matthew Flinders'

Entered service with Trans Australia Airlines - January 26, 1949

Operated its final revenue flight - May 21, 1956

Withdrawn from service & stored pending sale

Sold to Pakistan International Airlines - June 19, 1956

Entered onto the Pakistan Aircraft Register as AP-AHO

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 20, 1956

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Pakistan - June 23, 1956

Sold to Fokker NV as a trade-in on Friendship - October 17, 1959

Entered onto the Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-NHZ

Sold to Remmert Warner - June 30, 1960

Entered onto the U.S. Aircraft Register as N557R

Sold to Falstaff Brewing Company - 1964

Reregistered as N503

Sold to Alaska Coastal Ellis Airlines - 1966

Aircraft reregistered as N196N

Ownership transferred to Alaska Airlines Inc - April 1, 1968

Withdrawn from service and placed in storage - October 1969

Sold to Pacific Nevada Airlines - January 1973

Repossessed by Alaska Airlines Inc - May 1973

Returned to Pacific Nevada Airlines - December 1973

Ownership transferred to Pacific Coastal Airlines - 1975

Repossessed by Crocker National Bank, San Francisco - January 1, 1976

Aircraft scrapped at Long Beach, California - June 1979

VH-TAP. Trans Australia Airlines - in the original livery at Essendon Airport, date unknown.

VH-TAP. Trans Australia Airlines - in the original livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

N196N. Alaska - in the full livery at an unknown airport, November 1969.