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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 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 TS-2A Tracker 133053 VT-28 Unit code 3B. Side number 827. ‘Dayglo’ orang/red and white scheme. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker BuNo 133053 Converted to TS-2A. VT-28 as 3B-827. 1978: VT-28 as D-434. May 26,1978: From VT-28 put directly into storage at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Tucson Arizona with ‘PCN’ inventory number 1S715. January 16, 1984. To Consolidated Aero Corporation, Tucson Arizona. By 5/1990: Salvaged.

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