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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:US-2A Tracker
    Last Military Serial:136421 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-330
    Last Civil Registration:N434DF {1}
    Compressed ID:Grumman US-2A sn 136421 USN cn G-89...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136421.

    1962

    Redesignated as S-2A.

    Converted to an US-2A.

    Flew combat missions during the Vietnam War.

    By 1970

    Transferred to USS Kearsarge (CVS-33).
    As COD aircraft.

    By 1973

    Transferred to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.

    April 1973

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    1973

    To California DFFP with new c/r N434DF {1} (S2F-1, 330).
    Never converted to a fire bomber, used as a spare airframe.

    Based at Sequoia Field Airport, Visalia, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    23 April 1999


    Photographer: Sid Nanson

    By November 2012

    To Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    1 May 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA, USA.

    28 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Castle Air Museum, CA, U.S.A.
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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
     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Grumman S2F Tracker Survivors
    Individual Contributors
     Marcin Rogowski
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