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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:Firecat
    Last Military Serial:136515 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-424
    Last Civil Registration:C-GYQI
    Compressed ID:Conair Firecat sn 136515 USN cn G-8...
    Latest Owner or Location:Abbotsford International Airport (West Side), Abbotsford, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136515.

    Redesignated as S-2A.

    Converted to an US-2B.

    March 1978


    Photographer: RedRipper 24
    Notes: 136515 S-2B VT-28 D-484 at Corpus Christi International Airport, TX

    8 June 1981

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1S765.

    12 April 1984

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    To Gary Larkins, Tucson, AZ.

    From 30 May 1988 to By 2004

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC with new c/r C-GYQI.

    Remanufactured as a Firecat by Conair.
    New construction number, 030, assigned to the airframe.

    Operated as fire service #70.

    22 July 1994

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered via Glasgow to Spain for a two month fire tanker contract.

    1 October 1994

    Ferry flight.
    Returned via Keflavik.

    To Conair keeping c/r C-GYQI.

    To Abbotsford International Airport (West Side), Abbotsford, BC.
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    By 25 June 1995

    Operated as fire service #70.

    25 June 1995


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1995 photo at Gimli, MB

    3 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: WFU outside Fraser Valley College at Abbotsford BC
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier was started by a contributor.
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    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
     MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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