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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:E-1B Tracer
    Last Military Serial:148146 USN
    Construction Number:064
    Compressed ID:Grumman E-1B sn 148146 USN cn 064
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a WF-2.

    30 December 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148146.

    30 December 1960

    Transferred to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11 (VAW-11), NAS North Island, San Diego, CA.
    Operated with markings: RR-787

    Circa January 1961

    Deployed aboard U. S. S. Constellation (CVA-64).

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as E-1B.

    Transferred to Carrier Airborne Warning Squadron 12 (VAW-12), NAS Norfolk, VA.

    1 April 1967

    Transferred to Carrier Airborne Warning Squadron 121 (VAW-121), NAS Norfolk, VA.
    Unit created from a detachment of VAW-12.

    1967

    Transferred to Carrier Airborne Warning Squadron 111 (VAW-111), NAS North Island, San Diego, CA.
    Operated with markings: RR

    1968

    Transferred to Carrier Airborne Warning Squadron 121 (VAW-121), NAS Norfolk, VA.
    Operated with markings: AE-711

    Aircraft deployed also on USS Wasp (CVS-18), USS Saratoga (CVA-60) and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) in both Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during its career.

    9 June 1975

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    25 September 1975

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    7 November 2003


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Blue Angels Homecoming, NAS Pensacola FL

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States
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