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Grumman TS-2A Tracker 133217 VT-31 ‘Wise Owls’ with Training Wing 4 code D and side number 110. NAS Moffett Field California. August 30, 1975. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker BuNo 133217 Converted to TS-2A. Sept. 9, 1977: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. Process Control Number (PCN) 1S683. Feb. 8, 1984, One of many sold off to Allied Aircraft Sales, Tucson AZ. Subsequently scrapped & salvaged.

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.

Despite the image being darkened and contrasty: Possibly Grumman TS-2A Tracker BuNo 136521 with Tail Code 4B for VT-86 of NAS GLYNCO Georgia USA. Side number 307. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker/Bu. 136521 Converted to TS-2A. 1974: VT-86 as 4B-307. June 14, 1974: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. PCN 1S467. Feb. 1, 1984. Sold off to Allied Aircraft Sales Tucson AZ for eventual salvage By 5/1990: Scrapped. Naval Air Station Glynco, Georgia, was an operational naval air station from 1942 to 1974. Training Air Wing EIGHT (TRAWING 8) was at NAS Glynco. Training Squadron 86 (VT-86) was a subordinate command to TRAWING 8 to provide advanced training for USN and USMC Naval Flight Officers to be either: Radar Intercept Officers (RIO) in the F-4 Phantom II and F-14 Tomcat, Bombardier Navigators (B/N) in the A-3 Skywarrior, A-5 Vigilante and A-6 Intruder, Reconnaissance Attack Navigators (RAN) in the RA-5C Vigilante, Reconnaissance Systems Officers (RSO) in the RF-4B Phantom II, Electronic Warfare Officers in the EA-3B Skywarrior, Electronic Countermeasures Officers in the EA-6A Intruder and EA-6B Prowler, Combat Information Center Officers (CICO) in the E-2 Hawkeye, and as Tactical Coordinators (TACCO) in the S-3 Viking. While at NAS Glynco, VT-86 operated a combination of 24 T-39 Sabreliners, 20 A-4C Skyhawk, 2 EC-121K Warning Star, and 12 TS-2A Tracker aircraft. NAS Glynco closed at the end of 1974. As part of the closure process, TRAWING 8 was disestablished and VT-86 transferred to Training Air Wing SIX (TRAWING 6) at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Glynco