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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:S-2D Tracker
    Last Military Serial:147535 USN
    Construction Number:G-121-5C
    Last Civil Registration:N2195Y
    Compressed ID:Grumman S-2D sn 147535 USN cn G-121...
    Latest Owner or Location:United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147535.

    1962

    Redesignated as S-2D.

    21 February 1973

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1S0391.

    12 October 1977


    Photographer: Peter B Lewis
    Notes: At NAS Alameda

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147535.
    Returned to service.

    Markings Applied: NAVY VS-26, S-2D 147535, 23

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1S0773.

    To unknown owner with c/r N2195Y.

    From 9 November 1989 to By 2002

    To Allied Air Force, Allentown Queen City Memorial Airport, Allentown, PA.
    View the Location Dossier

    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ

    25 April 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX2195Y (ES-2D/G-89, 147535) issued.

    Reported as destroyed.

    May 2004

    To unknown owner with c/r N2195Y.
    Sale reported to a new owner in North Hollywood, CA.

    30 September 2004

    Civil registration, N2195Y, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in North Hollywood, CA.

    2004

    Transported by ground. Delivered to United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Moved from Allentown, PA, to Tucson, AZ.
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    Stripped for parts so only an incomplete airframe survives with the cockpit, wings and tail removed.

    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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