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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.

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 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.