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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:S-2E Tracker
    Last Military Serial:151664 USN
    Construction Number:G-121-197C
    Compressed ID:Grumman S-2E sn 151664 USN cn G-121...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-3S.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151664.

    1962

    Redesignated as S-2E.

    By 1990

    To Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY.
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    By 1990

    Markings Applied: 110, AU
    In the markings of VS-72 serving aboard USS Intrepid.

    1 April 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    25 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    25 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By January 2007

    To Cradle of Aviation Museum, Mitchell Field, Garden City, Long Island, NY.
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    By 2008

    Based at Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, NY.
    Derelict.
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    12 April 2009


    Photographer: Tom Turner

    14 July 2009


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Grumman S-2E Tracker (151664) - Unwanted and unloved, this poor tracker was first evicted from the Intrepid Air and Space Museum, to the Cradle of Aviation Museum, which did not have the space. The US Navy dumped her at Floyd Bennett Field, but in transit she has been torn apart so badly that any restoration is beyond the ability of the talented Historic Aircraft Restoration Project. So she sits on a weed-choked backlot, awaiting her fate.

    Markings Applied: AI

    31 May 2018

    Connie Finley comments (29 January 2019): 151664 is in HARPs building and seems at least marignally better, with the tail re-attached but still needs a lot of work and is not currently being restored.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Connie Finley
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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