grummantracker

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.

THIS AIRFRAME STILL EXISTS AS AN OPEN AIR EXHIBIT IN SOUTH KOREA. Grumman S-2E Tracker 149257 VS-41 ‘Shamrocks’ Side number 27. Tailcode RA of Readiness Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 51 (RCVSG-51) based at Naval Air Station North Island. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3S (S-2E) Tracker BuNo 149257 Delivered to the U.S. Navy. Assigned to VS-41 as RA-27, 1965. Assigned to VS-83 as NW-305, 1973. Transferred into storage at MASDC Arizona, January 13, 1975. Five digit Process Control Number (PCN): 1S493. Released from storage February 19, 1976. To NARF Alameda, CA. Preparation for Foreign Military Sale. (FMS) Sold to South Korea first for the Republic of Korea Air Force then transferred to the Republic of Korea Navy. Currently preserved at Jinhae Naval Academy Museum South Korea Coordinates: 35.12732697N 128.66282654E Description: S-2 www.spottingmode.com/wro/location/8336/ www.spottingmode.com/wro/map/8336/ S-2E Tracker 149257. S-2 Tracker 9257 Republic of Korea Navy. Jinhae Naval Academy Museum South Korea 1 Aenggok-dong, Jinhae-gu, Gyeongsangnam-do.

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.