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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:C-1A Trader
    Last Military Serial:146036 USN
    Construction Number:G-96-066
    Last Civil Registration:N32705
    Compressed ID:Grumman C-1A sn 146036 USN cn G-96-...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TF-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 146036.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-1A.

    20 August 1985

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 7C0017.
    Withdrawn from use and set to Davis Monthan AFB for storage.

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    23 February 1994

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL with new c/r N32705.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    August 1999

    Civil registration, N32705, cancelled.
    Civil registration cancelled by request of the N.M.N.A.

    19 August 1999

    Civil registration, N32705, cancelled.

    By September 2004

    Loaned to USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA.
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    Markings Applied: 146036, 700, USS Midway

    15 December 2006


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: USS Midway, San Diego, CA.

    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    20 April 2009


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: USS Midway, San Diego, CA.

    7 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    2 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed on the USS Midway on the Waterfront in San Diego, California.

    21 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA, USA.
    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 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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