grumman

Grumman US-2C Tracker BuNo 133382 VU-3 – Unit code UF. Side number 6. NAS North Island, July 1, 1965 - VU-3 was redesignated VC-3 October 1, 1981. VC-3 disestablished at NAS North Island CA VC-3 was home based at NAS North Island, subsequently moving to NAS Point Mugu. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-2 (S-2C) Tracker BuNo 133382 1959-60: VS-21 as YA-11. Converted to US-2C. 1965: VU-3 as UF-6. VU-7 as UH-6. 1970: VC-5 as UE-33. June 7, 1971: Put into storage at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Allocated five digit Process Control Number (PCN) 1S352. March 20, 1982. Sold off to Allied Aircraft Sales, Tucson, AZ. Subsequently scrapped and salvaged.

Grumman S-2E Tracker 149261 VS-38 ‘Red Griffins’. Side number 31 tailcode NT of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 59 (CVGS-59) Assigned to CVS-20 USS Bennington with its wooden surfaced deck. Circa 1964. Grumman S2F-3S (S-2E) Tracker BuNo 149261 1963-1964: VS-38 ‘Red Griffins’ as NT-31. CVGS-59. ……………………………? 1970: RAW-77 as 7L-156. NARTU Los Alamitos, California. June 26, 1970: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. PCN: 1S227. April 9, 1984: Release for preparation and sale to the Turkish Navy. 1985: Readied for flight to NAS Jacksonville FL, then later - was one of nine barged around the inland waterways to the Northrop Grumman facility at Saint Augustine Airport, Florida. However - became one of eight declared unfit for trans-Atlantic flight to Turkey and decommissioned in the subsequent years. Bought privately with eight other Trackers - as a commercial spare parts source – stripped and stored in a one acre compound off Highway One very near Saint Augustine Airport, Florida. By May 2011: After open air storage and abandonment since May 1986 in moist tropical conditions with foliage allowed to grow all around them, with the eight others, it was finally unceremoniously demolished and salvaged.

The three crosses may indicate Las Cruses, NM ?