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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:US-2A Tracker
    Last Military Serial:147552 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-696
    Last Civil Registration:N8225E
    Compressed ID:Grumman US-2A sn 147552 USN cn G-89...
    Latest Owner or Location:Carolina Warbirds Llc, Patuxent River, MD

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147552.

    Converted to an US-2A.
    Is a US-2A Tracker.

    By 1991

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


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2 July 2001


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: This Tracker is US-2A Bu.147552, seen in the restoration area at Pima. Its left here and was noted at Amarillo, TX regd N8225E in 2015.

    26 January 2005

    To Dennis M. Plunk, Dumas, TX with new c/r N8225E.

    11 January 2006

    To Gold Americas Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N8225E.

    To Texas Aviation Historical Society-English Field Air and Space Museum, Amarillo International Airport, Amarillo, TX.
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    4 May 2015

    Civil registration, N8225E, cancelled.

    5 July 2019

    To Anderson Engineering and Design Llc, Patuxent River, MD with new c/r N8225E.

    18 December 2023

    To Carolina Warbirds Llc, Patuxent River, MD keeping c/r N8225E.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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