grummantracker

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 S-2D Tracker BuNo 148718 VS-37 ‘Sawbucks’ Side Number 33. Code NV of CVSG-57. (Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57) from CVS-12 USS Hornet. Circa 1963 at an air base ‘Open House’. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3 (S-2D) Tracker BuNo 148718 1962: VS-37 as NV-32. 1963: VS-37 as NV-33. As yet no information about its fate.

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.