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THIS AIRCRAFT IS STILL FLYING AS OF YEAR 2023. Grumman S-2E Tracker 151640 VS-25 ‘Golden Eagles’. Side number 38. Code NU of CVSG-55 (Carrier Anti-Submarine Warfare Air Group 55) www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3S (S-2E) Tracker BuNo 151640 Delivered to U.S. Navy. Assigned to VS-25 as NU-38, 1964-1965. Transferred to VS-33 as NT-135 May 18, 1973: Put into storage at Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Five digit Process Control Number (PCN): 1S401. Departed: February 17, 2000. United Aeronautical Corporation, Tucson, AZ. Sold on the civilian market and registered as N513DF and N438DF. 22 August 1996. To USDA Forestry Service, Mather, CA with new c/r N513DF. 1 September 1998. Civil registration, N513DF, cancelled. Remanufactured as a turbo prop powered S-2F3AT by Marsh Aviation. New construction number, 0229-003 assigned to the airframe. 1 February 2000. Certificate of airworthiness for N438DF {2} (S-2F3AT, 151640) issued. To USDA Forest Service Fepp, McClellan, CA. Based at California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan Sacramento airport Sacramento, CA. Operated as ‘CAL FIRE’ Tanker Number 85. S-2F3AT N438DF FAA Certificate Issue Date: 02/01/2000 FAA Certificate Expiration Date: 07/31/2029

www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv20-68/183.htm www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv20-68/index_020.htm www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv20-68/index.html USS Bennington (CVS 20) WestPac Cruise Book 1968 S-2E Tracker 151666 VS-33 ‘Screwbirds’ Side number 20. Coded NT of CVSG-59 (Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 59) when assigned to CVS-20 USS Bennington. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/S-2.html www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/s2-tracker-1... Grumman S2F-3S (S-2E) Tracker BuNo 151667 1968: VS-33 as NT-14. VS-33 as NT-103. 6/1976: Put into storage at MASDC Arizona. PCN 1S628 Returned to service. 8/1976 1980: PMTC as 24. 10/1980: Put back into storage at MASDC boneyard. PCN 1S756. Departed: November 7, 1984. To Associated Aircraft Sales, Fort Lauderdale Florida. Sold on the civilian market and registered as N667MA. June 5, 1998. Put into storage at Marsh Aviation Company, Falcon Field Airport, Mesa, Phoenix, Arizona. AS OF YEAR 2023, THIS AIRFRAME IS STILL IN EXISTENCE.