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Grumman US-2C 133345 VC-3 ‘Chukar Pups’ or ‘Iron Men’. Unit code UF. Side number 6. For a photo shoot displaying its towed target drogue while flying from NAS North Island, November 1972. Home based at NAS North Island, California, VC-3 subsequently moved to NAS Point Mugu. VU-3 was redesignated VC-3 on July 1, 1965. VC-3 disestablished October 1, 1981 at NAS North Island CA www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-2 (S-2C) Tracker BuNo 133345 Converted to US-2C. VC-3 as UF-6. 1976-77: VC-5 as UE-27. Jan 14, 1977: Put into storage at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Allocated five digit Process Control Number (PCN) 1S659. June 23, 1982. Sold off to Consolidated Aeronautical Corporation, Tucson, AZ. Subsequently scrapped and salvaged.

A DC-130A 158228 with VC-3 It was a former USAF C-130D 55-21 which itself had been modified from a C-130A. There has been a lot of tinkering with Herculeses through the years.... :-) Stig

F4D-1, BuNo 134777. Assigned VC-3, codex NP-21 and NP-22, NAS Moffett Field, CA 1956. To VF-23 1957. Crashed 9 May 1957 in a residential area of Santa Clara, CA.