12/31/2008. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Delivered to the USAAF in 1944, the aircraft was sold to Lysdale Flying Service of St. Paul, Minnesota, in October 1958. Registered N3160G it till 1963 and was subsequently stored till it was obtained by the Confederate AF (CAF, presently known as Commemorative AF), at Harlingen, Texas in December 1978. On September 6, 1991, it was reregistered as N27493 to the CAF American Airpower Heritage Museum in Midland, while on April 16, 1993, it was first flown after a long term restoration."