C-54E 42-72748 is suspected to be one of the three SARA JANE aircraft operated from Rhein Main with the 7499th Support Group. Such aircraft would have carried out PHOTINT missions (cameras inside the outer wing panels) during embassy support flights. Tempelhof, June 1961.

The Big Safari program name mentioned corresponds to the period when the aircraft was photographed. The aircraft modifications and the Big Safari program in which this particular aircraft was involved were not necessarily the same before or after.