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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.

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.

Grumman S-2E Trackers of VS-28 ‘Hukkers’ with tailcode AS of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 52 (CVSG-52) from CVS-18 USS Wasp Side number 10 is BuNo 152367. After that are BuNo 149873. Then BuNo 151672. Circa 1967-1968. This webpage from a renowned website details aircraft assigned to the 1968 deployment of CVGS-52 and CVS-18 Wasp: www.gonavy.jp/CVSG-ASf.html www.gonavy.jp/CVSG52-AS1968.html CVSG-52 (AS) USS WASP (CVS-18) August 20, 1968 – December 19, 1968 (Med) S-2E 152367 AS-10. S-2E 149873 AS-17. S-2E 151672 AS-14.