grummans2f

Research has revealed this was Grumman TS-2A Tracker BuNo 136458. Civilian Registration N400DF. Operated for California Division of Forestry as air tanker number 70. Delivered to Hemet Valley Flying Services CA. from MASDC Davis-Monthan AFB AZ in 1971. Stored until 1973 when converted to tanker by HVFS with CDF prototype tank design. Retired to Hemet by 1983, stripped for parts and scrapped by 1987. Struck-off US Civil Register August 1988.

Grumman S-2E Tracker of anti-submarine squadron VS-29 Tromboners. VS-29 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) and flew the S-2E from 1964 to 1968 using two-digit numbers. Date1960s SourceU.S. Navy AuthorOfficial US Navy Photo by PHC(AW/SW) Mahlon K. Miller, USN CVSG-53 (NS) www.gonavy.jp/CVSG-NSf.html S-2E Tracker 152XXX VS-29 ‘Tromboners’ Code NS of CVSG-53. Side number 30.

Grumman TS-2A Tracker BuNo 136514. Civilian Registration N403DF. Operated for California Division of Forestry as air tanker number 71. Flown under contract by Hemet Valley Flying Services CA. Stored until 1973 when converted to tanker by HVFS with CDF prototype tank design. Retired to Hemet by 1987, stripped for parts and scrapped by 1987.