Ordered new by Trans Australia Airlines

Construction completed at the San Diego plant - September 21, 1948

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TAS - October 8, 1948

Registered to Australian National Airlines Commission

Departed San Diego on delivery flight - October 1948

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - October 24, 1948

Delivery route: London-Rome-Nicosia-Basra-Karachi-Delhi-Calcutta-Rangoon-Singapore-Makasar-

Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide-Melbourne

Aircraft was named 'James Cook' & later 'Thomas Mitchell'

Entered service with Trans Australia Airlines - November 3, 1948

Established a speed record for flight Melbourne-Hobart of 74 minutes - March 27, 1954

Operated its final T.A.A. service and withdrawn from use - June 22, 1956

Sold to Pakistan International Airlines - July 4, 1956

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Pakistan - July 7, 1956

Arrived Karachi at conclusion of delivery flight - July 8, 1956

Delivery route: Alice Springs-Darwin-Sourabaya-Singapore-Bangkok-Rangoon-Calcutta-New Delhi-Karachi

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - July 13, 1956

Entered onto the Pakistan Aircraft Register as AP-AHS

Sold to N.V. Fokker as a trade for Friendship - October 17, 1959

Entered onto the Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-NLP

Operated by Euravia Air Charter N.V.

Sold to Beldex Corporation - July 6, 1960

Entered onto the U.S. Aircraft Register as N559R

Ferried to St Louis for fitment of executive interior by Remmert-Warner

Sold to Peabody Coal Company, St Louis - January 6, 1961

Sold to Louis Larramore, California - September 30, 1961

Aircraft was reregistered as N559L

Sold to Beldex Corporation - May 11, 1962

Reregistered as N568R

Sold to Stephens Inc, Little Rock, Arizona - February 14, 1963

Sold to Little Rock Airmotive, then to Faberge Inc - September 21, 1970

Aircraft was reregistered as N396CG

Sold to Western Commander Inc - August 22, 1972

Ownership transferred to Western Leasing Corporation - August 23, 1972

Sold to the Summa Corportation (Howard Hughes) - August 21, 1974

Sold to Kings Point Corporation, Las Vagas - February 25, 1977

Sold to Gemini Management Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma - November 9, 1977

Sold to H. A. Cousins, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan - July 24, 1980

Cancelled from the U.S. Aircraft Register - February 20, 1981

Placed in storage at Pontiac Airport, Michigan

Restored to the U.S. Aircraft Register - date unknown

Sold to C & M Airways Inc, Longview, Texas - August 25, 1989

Sold to Garr Aero Inc, Stillwater, Oklahoma - November 29, 1989

Sold to R. Stevenson, Haskell, Oklahoma - January 5, 1990

Sold to Gunnell Aviation Inc, Santa Monica, California - June 1991

Sold to E. A. Schnepf, Tucson, Arizona - October 29, 1993

Used as a personal transport by singer Glenn Campbell

Withdrawn from service and stored at Camarillo Airport, California as non airworthy - 1999

Reportedly being held in storage for a Camarillo museum since 2003

VH-TAS. Trans Australia Airlines - in the original 'metal roof' livery, location & date unknown.

VH-TAS. Trans Australia Airlines - in the original 'metal roof' livery, location & date unknown.

VH-TAS. Trans Australia Airlines - in the 'white roof' livery at Melbourne Airport, date unknown.

VH-TAS. Trans Australia Airlines - in the 'white roof' livery, location & date unknown.

N396CG. Garr Aero Inc - in the full livery at unknown airport, November 1989.

N396CG. Gunnell Aviation - in the final livery at Sacramento Metro Airport, June 1991.

N396CG. E. A. Schnepf - in the Gunnell livery at Tucson Airport, July 1993.