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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:136790 USN
    Construction Number:G-96-043
    Compressed ID:Grumman C-1A sn 136790 USN cn G-96-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1957

    Constructed as a TF-1.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136790.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as C-1A.

    From By 1967 to After 28 December 1969

    Transferred to USS Hancock (CVA-19).
    Operated with markings: 790, COMSEVENTHFLT
    Commander, Seventh FleetaCOs aircraft.

    From 1967 to After April 1970

    Transferred to USS Hancock (CVA-19).
    Operated with markings: 000, HANCOCK
    While aboard USS Hancock for duty in Vietnam, delivered supplies, mail, and replacements; carried Seamen on rotation, and the occasional wounded.

    By 1975

    Transferred to NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: 790, OCEANA

    From By 1979 to 1983

    Transferred to USS Independence (CV-62).

    By May 1983

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Squadron 40 (VRC-40), Norfolk NAS.

    Circa 1984


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: This was the mail plane aboard the USS Nimitz CVN-68 when I was in the Navy.Photo was taken between 9/1984 and 12/1984.Note: C-1A Trader(COD) 136790 c/n 43

    Unknown

    Transferred to USS Nimitz (CVN-68).

    By 1988

    Transferred to NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: 90

    30 September 1988

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By 1991

    To Florence Air and Missile Museum, Florence, SC.
    Museum closed 12/97.
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    27 May 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By July 1999

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
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    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 May 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    Internet Sources
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    Aviation Photo Company
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Grissom Air Museum
    UniFlip
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
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    Mike Henniger
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