During World War Two, Lockheed Lodestars served as smaller, faster transport aircraft than the Douglas DC-3, and the USAAF took over more than 50 early models as C-56, C-57, and C-59 aircraft before making the C-60 the definitive military Lodestar, with more than 350 built. These aircraft were used mainly for crew and paratroop training, freight movement, and VIP transport, and although they served adequately as fast, medium-range transports, most left military service before the war ended. The museum's aircraft served with the USAAF at bases in Alabama from March 1943 to February 1945, was sold to Capitol Airways in 1946, was reconverted to an executive transport in 1958, was acquired by the USAF Heritage program in 1990 and displayed at the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Georgia, and was transferred to the AMC Museum in 2014.