01/22/2007. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This aircraft was delivered to Braniff Airways on February 6, 1953. Braniff sold it to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in May 1962 and they resold it to Allegheny Airlines on June 20, 1962. Allegheny converted it to a Model 580 by replacing the original reciprocating engines with Allison turboprop engines; this was completed in July 1967. In August 1978, it was sold to Summit Airlines and reregistered N543SA. Summit used it until 1988 when it was sold to another company.

In 1989, the Irish leasing company GPA Group bought the aircraft and registered it in Belgium as OO-EEA and then leased it to European Expedite. In 1990, the aircraft went to Canada, registered as C-FHEO and was owned by three different companies before being withdrawn from use and stored at Opa-Locka, Florida, USA, in March 1999. It was purchased by World Aviation Services and leased to Trans-Air Link Corp. On the night of December 6, 2001, the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, on a ferry flight from Fort Lauderdale to Opa-Locka, Florida."