• 142427 US Navy. Delivered 21st March 1956. VX-6 initially at Patuxent River NAS, MD.
VX-6 Little America Station, some 400 miles to the east of the main American base at McMurdo Sound on the Ross Ice Shelf.
Incident: Cape Chocolate on the Ross Sea 22nd October 1958. The Otter was supporting a science party taking observation readings on the Ross Ice Shelf. During a ground taxi to take the science party to another observation spot the fuselage buckled and cracked. It was able to be flown back to McMurdo. Such was the extent of the damage that the Otter was a write-off and was struck from the Naval inventory on 18th November at McMurdo.
Total time: 409 hours in Naval service.