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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:TS-2A Tracker
    Last Military Serial:133322 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-293
    Last Civil Registration:N406DF
    Compressed ID:Grumman TS-2A sn 133322 USN cn G-89...
    Latest Owner or Location:Christopher D. Schneider, Sutter Creek, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TS-2A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 133322.

    To California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    4 January 1974

    To USDA Forest Service Fepp, McClellan, CA with new c/r N406DF.

    By 7 October 1984

    Operated as fire service #73.

    7 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Hemet Valley

    May 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Hemet-Ryan Air Base, Hemet, CA.

    August 1993


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: Grumman S2F-1, 133322, N406DF, Ramona CA Aug93

    14 July 1997


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Ukiah Airport at Ukiah, CA.

    20 April 1999

    To USDA Forest Service Fepp, Mather, CA keeping c/r N406DF.

    5 April 2006

    To Christopher D. Schneider, Sutter Creek, CA keeping c/r N406DF.

    26 June 2007


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N406DF as nr 95 of CDF Aviation at McClellan, CA

    Based at Westover Field Amador County Airport, Jackson-Sutter Creek, CA.
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    Markings Applied: 95

    2 August 2017

    To Christopher D. Schneider, Sutter Creek, CA keeping c/r N406DF.

    31 October 2020

    Civil registration, N406DF, cancelled.
    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
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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