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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:TS-2A Tracker
    Last Military Serial:136726 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-635
    Last Civil Registration:N428DF {2}
    Compressed ID:Grumman TS-2A sn 136726 USN cn G-89...
    Latest Owner or Location:Western International, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136726.

    Converted to a S2F-1T.

    1962

    Converted to a TS-2A.

    Markings Applied: 437, 6726, D, NAVY, VT-28

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 1S714.

    17 July 1985

    To California Department of Forestry, Mather, CA with new c/r N428DF {2}.

    To California Department. of Forestry, Sacramento, CA keeping c/r N428DF {2}.

    2 September 1998

    Civil registration, N428DF {2}, cancelled.

    To Western International, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Placed in open storage unconverted in a contactor yard at Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.

    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
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    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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