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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:S-2 Tracker
    Last Military Serial:N12-153604 RAN
    Construction Number:348C
    Compressed ID:Grumman S-2 sn N12-153604 RAN cn 34...
    Latest Owner or Location:United Aeronautical Corporation, USA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 153604.

    22 November 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n N12-153604 and operated with these markings: 849.

    October 1975


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: S-2E Tracker N12-153604 at Broome WA in October 1975 with a detachment based there for coastal surveillance

    12 August 1984

    Withdrawn from use.

    29 November 1991

    To Hookway Aviation.

    To Lyon Crescent, Fulham, Victoria.
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    October 2013

    To United Aeronautical Corporation, USA.
    Purchased via Grays On-line Auctions.

    September 2016

    Noted in United Aeronautical Corporations yard adjacent to Davis Monthan AFB Arizona.
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     Terry Fletcher
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