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Grumman S2F-3 Tracker 147870 VS-36 'Gray Wolves' Side number 46. Code AV of CVSG-58. Grumman S2F-3 Tracker 147894 VS-36 'Gray Wolves' Side number 4x Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group 58. CV-15 USS Randolph 1963 www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3 (S-2D) Tracker BuNo 147870 VS-36 as AV-46. …………………. 1979: PMTC. Converted to ES-2D. 3/1986: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. Was preserved at NAS Barbers Point, HI. Currently preserved at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3 (S-2D) Tracker BuNo 147894 ………………………………. 1969: NARTU Los Alamitos, CA as 7L-168. 6/1969: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. 7/12/1973: Struck off charge at NARF Quonset Point, RI.

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.

Grumman US-2B Tracker 136450 NAS Miramar Base Flight, ‘MIRAMAR’ across tailplane and side number 450. February 1974. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker BuNo 136450 Converted to US-2B. 1970: HEDRON FMFPAC as WZ-9. 1974: NAS Miramar Base Flight as 450. 1975: VX-4 as XF-000. 1975-76: NAS Miramar Base Flight as 450. March 22, 1977: Put into storage at Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Assigned five digit MASDC Process Control Number (PCN): 1S664. March 14, 1984. One of many sold off that year to Allied Aircraft Sales, Tucson AZ. Subsequently scrapped and salvaged.