grummantracker

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 151653 VS-21 ‘Lightning Bolts’ Modex 107 code NS of CVSG-53 1972? Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 53 assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3S (S-2E) Tracker BuNo 151653 ………………………….. 1971: VS-28 as AC-226. 1972: VS-21 as NS-103. 1975: VS-73 as AW-xx. April 18, 1975: Put into storage at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. PCN: 1S523 (MASDC Five-digit Process Control Number) Departed: July 11, 1981. Sold to South Korea for Republic of Korea Navy.

Grumman S-2F Tracker BuNo 136627 Code 7Y of the Naval Air Reserve Training Unit (NARTU) at NAS Grosse Ile Michigan. Side number 196. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker BuNo 136627 Converted to S-2F. RAW-73 as 7Y-xx. 1963: NARTU Glenview, IL as 7V-152. 1966: NAS Grosse Isle, MI as 7Y-196. 10/1966: Put into MASDC storage. Probably salvaged.