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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:146049 USN
    Construction Number:G-96-079
    Last Civil Registration:N81389
    Compressed ID:Grumman C-1A sn 146049 USN cn G-96-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Saint Louis Downtown Airport, East Saint Louis, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a TF-1.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 146049.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as C-1A.

    By August 1965

    Transferred to Navy Transport Squadron 24 (VR-24), Capodichino Airdrome, Naples Italy.
    Operated with markings: JM-049

    From March 1966 to March 1967

    Supported VR21, NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, in the Pacific area, with many flights into Vietnam.

    By 1984

    Transferred to Base Flight, NAS Meridian, MS.

    30 September 1984

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 7C0015.

    2 October 1984

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    April 1989

    To David Brady, Cartersville, GA with new c/r N81389.
    Operated with markings: Georgia Trader

    April 1989

    Based at Air Acres Museum, Cartersville, GA.
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    2 April 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX81389 (C-1A, 146049) issued.

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At NAS Atlanta Air Show 1990

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At NAS Atlanta Air Show 1990

    July 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Air Acres Museum

    1990

    To Robert E. Robeson, Franklin, TN keeping c/r N81389.

    June 1991

    To Midwest Custom Coaches Inc, Salina KS keeping c/r N81389.

    3 May 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    11 October 1997

    To Phil Bomberger/Aviation Business Corporation, Saint. Louis, MO keeping c/r N81389.

    1 January 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX81389 (C-1A, 146049) issued.

    Based at Saint Louis Downtown Airport, East Saint Louis, IL.
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    6 May 2019

    Civil registration, N81389, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     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
     AirFighters.com
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    VR-24 Association
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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