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    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:136754 USN
    Construction Number:G-96-007
    Compressed ID:Grumman C-1A sn 136754 USN cn G-96-...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a TF-1.

    30 June 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136754.

    Circa July 1955

    Transferred to Assigned to Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron 11 (FASRON-11).

    From 1959 to 1961

    Transferred to USS Lexington (CV-16).
    Assigned as COD aircraft.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as C-1A.

    From 1963 to 1976

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Based at Pensacola and assigned to the Lexington, now redesignated CVS-16 (CVT-16 in 1969).

    From 1963 to 1976

    1963-1976: Logged hundreds of flights between Forrest Sherman Field, NAS Pensacola and the Lexington in the final years of her service averaging double the monthly flight hours as C-1As assigned to the fleet. After the airplane passed the 15,000 hour mark, the decision was made to retire it from service and it was donated to the then-Naval Aviation Museum.

    12 July 1976

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Received the aircraft from the USS Lexington.
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    November 1977


    Photographer: Larry Johnson


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Pensacola, FL.

    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

    7 November 2003

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    27 March 2011


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

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States
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     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
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