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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:US-2B Tracker
    Last Military Serial:136534 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-443
    Last Civil Registration:N5244B
    Compressed ID:Grumman US-2B sn 136534 USN cn G-89...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136534.

    1962

    Redesignated as S-2A.

    Converted to a S-2B.

    Converted to an US-2B.

    To unknown owner with c/r N5244B.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Kissimmee, FL.

    24 May 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX5244B (S-2B, 136534) issued.

    By May 1990

    Based at Air Acres Museum, Cartersville, GA.
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    27 May 1990

    At Air Acres Museum.
    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Air Acres Museum

    27 October 1993

    To unknown owner with c/r N5244B.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Kissimmee, FL.

    To Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum/Tom Reilly, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, FL.
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    17 March 2010

    To unknown owner with c/r NX5244B.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Kissimmee, FL.

    6 April 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N5244B.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    To Flying Tigers Museum, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, FL.
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    27 January 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N5244B.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    29 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Kissimmee Air Museum, Florida

    29 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Kissimmee Air Museum, Florida

    19 July 2012

    To T Reilly Vintage Aircraft Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N5244B.

    9 April 2015


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Kissimmee Air Museum, FL.

    To Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, FL.
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    30 November 2018

    Civil registration, N5244B, cancelled.

    30 July 2022

    Civil registration, N5244B, cancelled.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    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
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Thorsten Ruchel
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