In the same year, Samlesbury Engineering Limited acquired the whole project which became a subsidiary named the Lancashire Aircraft Company.

In early 1958 World Wide Helicopters Ltd were operating three EP-9s out of Tripoli, Libya, on flights into and around the Libyan Sahara in support of oil exploration companies (mainly Esso-Libya).

In 1959 Kingsford Smith Aviation of Bankstown, Australia re-engined two aircraft with an Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 10 radial engine as the EP-9C.

It was once owned in the late 1960s by a gang of international smugglers who found it the ideal way to smuggle stolen furs and counterfeit Swiss francs between England and Belgium.

After extensive restoration, N747JC appeared at Oshkosh in 2001-03 and 2011,[3] and as of October 2023[update], is registered to the Warbirds of The World Air Museum in New Mexico.