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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:Turbo Firecat
    Last Military Serial:136552 USN
    Construction Number:461
    Last Civil Registration:F-ZBMA
    Compressed ID:Conair Turbo Firecat sn 136552 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Securite Civile, Marseille, France

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 136552.

    7 October 1980

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1S760.

    27 September 1983

    To Roy D. Reagan/Reagan Enterprises Inc, with new c/r N4477Z.

    27 June 1984

    Civil registration, N4477Z, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    July 1984

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford BC with new c/r C-GQCW.

    June 1985

    Converted to a Firecat by Conair.

    June 1985

    Markings Applied: #9

    From 1985 to 1995

    To Securite Civile, Marseille, France with new c/r F-ZBEX.

    From 1995 to 2000

    To Securite Civile, Marseille, France with new c/r F-WEOL.

    2000

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford BC with new c/r C-GFZG.

    2000

    Converted to a Turbo Firecat by Conair.

    July 2000

    To Securite Civile, Marseille, France with new c/r F-ZBMA.
    Operated with markings: #24

    14 May 2016


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At La Ferte Alais, Paris, France

    12 May 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Nimes - Garons, France
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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