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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:S2F-1 Tracker
    Last Military Serial:133056 USN
    Construction Number:G-89-027
    Last Civil Registration:N451DF {1}
    Compressed ID:Grumman S2F-1 sn 133056 USN cn G-89...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S2F-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 133056.

    1974

    To California Division of Forestry, Sacramento CA with new c/r N451DF {1} (S2F-1 (TS-2A), 027).

    Operated by Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA.

    Operated as fire service #92.

    March 1976


    Photographer: Carl J. Waldenmaier / Eric Bannwarth Collection
    Notes: N451DF - S-2F Tracker - Sis-Q Flying Service at Santa Rosa

    13 July 1984

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Crashed in canyon while fire bombing, Mount Baldy, near Ukiah CA - Bell Jr., while en route to fire, flew up a canyon he could not clear.


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