Surviving Grumman S2F Tracker Information Repository
By David D Jackson

Focusing on Existing Grumman S2F / S-2 Tracker, TF-1 / C-1A Trader and WF-2 / E-1B Tracer Airframes



 

My Trader Photos


136427 landing at Anderson, IN

Grumman C-1A Traders I have personally taken photos of unless otherwise noted.  In order by Navy Bureau Number.             

136752 :  Owner Hans O Lauridsen, Aircraft at Buckeye Airport, AZ May 2009  This Trader was moved to Buckeye Airport from the Glendale, AZ Airport after negotiations for a Warbird Museum there failed.  The airport instead built a Jet service facility that failed within months of its opening.  136752 is part of a collection at Buckeye that has in this hangar an HU-16, B-25, C-47 and A-26.  In an adjacent enclosed hangar is a fully restored TBM and PT-17.


136754 :  National Naval Aviation Museum November 2006
 

       


136778: Owner - Daniel H. Serrato, Eufaula, AL - Photos below provided by the owner.


Trader 136778 awaiting its turn in the hangar to get its annual done at Trudeau Warbird Enterprises & T28 Parts in Punta Gorda, FL.


In the hangar getting inspected.


On the way to Florida by ferry flight for a complete annual.   Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 12:30PM.  Photo Courtesy of Dan Serrato.


Ready to go for the first time in six years!!. Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 12:30PM.  Photo Courtesy of Dan Serrato.


C-1A 136778 running for the first time in five years.


Nice looking Trader.


Older photo showing 136778 at an aviation event in the Chicago, IL area in 2001.  Nickname for this aircraft was "Rosebud" when she served with on the USS Franklin D Roosevelt.


136790:  Grissom Aviation Museum at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana
Trader located at Grissom Aviation Museum at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana.  The Museum is right on US 31north of Kokomo and south of Peru.  It is actually at the town of Bunker Hill.  The base was originally during WWII NAS Bunker Hill, became Bunker Hill AFB when it was reopened as a SAC base during the Cold War, and was renamed Grissom AFB in honor of Indiana native and astronaut Gus Grissom.  Photos taken September 2007.

       


136791:  These 1971-73 vintage photos were provided by Don Smith.  Photos are from the USS Enterprise and NAS Cubi Point, The Philippines.  Don is looking for other members of his crew.  Feel free to contact him about 136791:  donald.smith5590@att.net


February, 1973

 
Front Row Left to Right:  R. Hudson, Don Smith
Back Row Left to Right:  P.G. Johnson, Ray Clark, Tom Foust
1971 USS Enterprise CVAN-65


146036:  USS Midway, San Diego, CA  May 2009


146038:  AMARC, Tucson, AZ  May 2009


146048:  Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA   May 2009


146049:  Indianapolis Air Show, September 2001


146052:  Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX   March 2009
While the photos due not show it this C-1A was damaged by salt water during Hurricane Ike in September of 2009 and will not doubt never fly again.  Just to change out the engines would cost $200,000 along with wiring, plumbing, and wheel and brake repair.  Hopefully it will be preserved as a static display and be moved back inside.


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