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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.

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 S2F-3 Tracker 147870 VS-36 'Gray Wolves' Side number 46. Code AV of CVSG-58. Grumman S2F-3 Tracker 147894 VS-36 'Gray Wolves' Side number 4x Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group 58. CV-15 USS Randolph 1963 www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3 (S-2D) Tracker BuNo 147870 VS-36 as AV-46. …………………. 1979: PMTC. Converted to ES-2D. 3/1986: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. Was preserved at NAS Barbers Point, HI. Currently preserved at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3 (S-2D) Tracker BuNo 147894 ………………………………. 1969: NARTU Los Alamitos, CA as 7L-168. 6/1969: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. 7/12/1973: Struck off charge at NARF Quonset Point, RI.