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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:C-1A Trader
    Last Military Serial:146048 USN
    Construction Number:G-96-78
    Last Civil Registration:N7171M
    Compressed ID:Grumman C-1A sn 146048 USN cn G-96-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TF-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 146048.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-1A.

    22 May 1990

    To Roy D. Reagan, Rockford, IL Chico, CA with new c/r N7171M.

    May 1990

    To Jerry C. Janes Associates, Rockford, IL keeping c/r N7171M.

    From October 1990 to By 1995

    To COD Aviation/Don Hannah Dick Bertea, Chino, CA keeping c/r N7171M.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chino, CA

    21 May 1992

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX7171M (C-1A, 146048) issued.

    From 1996 to By 1997

    Loaned to Planes of Fame East/Robert J. Pond, Eden Prairie, MN.
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    December 1997

    Loaned to Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    29 January 1998

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N7171M.

    20 January 2004

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N7171M.

    By 6 September 2011

    Markings Applied: LEX COD, 16, Ghost Riders, NAVY BLUE GHOST #6, N7171M, C-1A 146048, 6048

    6 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    6 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Palm Springs Air Museum, California

    3 June 2013

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N7171M.

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    13 February 2018

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV keeping c/r N7171M.
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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