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    Airframe Family: Grumman AF Guardian
    Latest Model:AF-2S Guardian
    Last Military Serial:129233 USN
    Construction Number:321
    Last Civil Registration:N9994Z
    Compressed ID:Grumman AF-2S sn 129233 USN cn 321...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AF-2S.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 129233.

    16 March 1962

    To Aero Union Corporation, Chico, CA with new c/r N9994Z.

    Operated as fire service #E21.
    Intended for use as a tanker, but this did not come to be. The twin vertical stabilizers on each horizontal tail were removed.

    To unknown owner with c/r N9994Z.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.

    August 1975


    Photographer: Malcolm Gougan Collection
    Notes: Photographed at Aero Union in Chico, CA.

    1988

    Placed in open storage at Chino, CA.

    By 1991

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By August 1991

    Markings Applied: E, 21, N9995Z
    Painted in false markings as N9995Z.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    27 June 1994

    To unknown owner with c/r N9994Z.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.

    August 1994


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Scanned slide.

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Pima museum, Arizona.

    14 December 2010


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    28 November 2012

    Civil registration, N9994Z, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.
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