List of displayed Grumman S-2 Trackers

Canadian-made CS2F-2 Tracker on static display at Base Borden Military Museum

The Grumman S-2 Tracker is an American twin-engine anti-submarine warfare aircraft designed for the United States Navy. Still in active service in South America it has been retired in other countries and a number are now on public display.

Argentina

On display

• US-2A Tracker 0510/6-G-52 of the Argentine Naval Aviation at Naval Aviation Museum, Bahía Blanca^[1]

Australia

S-2E Tracker 153582 on display in 2015

Airworthy

• S-2G VH-NVX painted as ex-USN BuNo 152333 (844) of the Royal Australian Navy and operated by the RAN Historic Flight, HMAS Albatross, Nowra, New South Wales^[2]

On display

• S-2A Tracker BuNo 133160 - Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra Airport, Caloundra West, Queensland, Australia^[2][3]
• S-2E Tracker BuNo 153582 (859) - Fleet Air Arm Museum, HMAS Albatross, Nowra, New South Wales, Australia^[2]
• S-2G Tracker N12-BuNo 153566 (854) was on loan to Gippsland Armed Forces Museum, West Sale Airport, Sale, Victoria, Australia^[4] until June 2016^[5]
• S-2E Tracker 153600 (844) - Fleet Air Arm Museum, HMAS Albatross, Nowra, New South Wales, Australia^[2]
• S-2G Tracker N12-153567 (855) National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Phillip Island, Victoria^[6][7]

Brazil

On display

• One S2A Tracker and one S2E Tracker, on display at the Brazilian Air Force Aerospace Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[8]

Canada

CS2F-2 Tracker 1577 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario

On display

• CS2F-1 Tracker 1501 at the Shearwater Aviation Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia^[9]
• CS2F-2 Tracker 1507 at the Base Borden Military Museum, CFB Borden, Barrie, Ontario^[10]
• CS2F-2 Tracker 1545 at the National Air Force Museum of Canada, Trenton, Ontario^[11]
• CS2F-2 Tracker 1577 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario^[12] (undergoing restoration to flying status)^[13]
• CS2F-2 Tracker 1600 - Canadian Air and Space Museum, Toronto, Ontario^[14]
• CP-121 Tracker 12157 - Shearwater Aviation Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• CP-121 Tracker 12176 - Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Halifax International Airport, Nova Scotia^[15]
• CP-121 Tracker 12187 - Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario^[16]
• CP-121 Tracker 12188 - Comox Air Force Museum, Comox, British Columbia^[17]
• Conair Firecat (conversion from CS2L Tracker), Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario^[18]
• Conair Firecat (conversion from CS2F-2 Tracker), registration CF-OPU, Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley, British Columbia^[19]

Japan

S2F-1 at Kanoya Air Field, Kanoya, Kagoshima

• S-2F1 4131 On display at Kanoya Naval Air base Museum at Kanoya Air Field, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan ^[20][21]
• S-2F1 4150 At Tokushima Air Base, Matsushige Tokushima Prefecture^[21]
• S-2F (US Navy) forward section on display at Kawaguchiko Motor Museum, Narusawa, Yamanashi prefecture^[22]

Netherlands

On display

• US-2N Tracker 160 on display at the Dutch Air Force Museum, at Kamp Zeist, near Soesterberg Air Base

South Korea

On display

• S-2 Tracker, on display at the War Memorial of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea^[23]

Turkey

TCB-877, at the Istanbul Aviation Museum.

On display

• Ex-USN BuNo 149877/TCB-877, S-2E, on display at the Istanbul Aviation Museum.

United States

On display

S2F-1 (S-2A)

• BuNo 133179 - Mid America Air Museum, Liberal, Kansas.^[24]
• BuNo 133224 - Former US Navy S-2A, former California Division of Forestry (CDF) Tanker 84, displayed at the Pacific Coast Air Museum, Santa Rosa, California.^[25]
• BuNo 133251 - Former CDF Tanker 78 Aerospace Museum of California, North Highlands, California^[26]
• BuNo 136431 - Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Texas.^[27]
• BuNo 136468 - Pima Air Museum, adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.^[28]
• BuNo 136546 - Weed Airport, Weed, California.^[29]
• BuNo 136560 - Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama.^[30]
• BuNo 136567 - Former CDF Tanker 74 Estrella Warbird Museum, Paso Robles, California.^[31]

US-2A

• BuNo 136421 - Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, CA.^[32]
• BuNo 136486 - Combat Air Museum at Topeka Regional Airport / Forbes Field and adjacent to Forbes Air National Guard Base (former Forbes Air Force Base) in Topeka, Kansas.^[33]
• BuNo 144721 - Selfridge Military Air Museum at Selfridge Air National Guard Base (former Selfridge Air Force Base), Harrison Township, Michigan.^[34]

US-2B

• BuNo 136433 - Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida.^[35]
• BuNo 136534 - Kissimmee Air Museum at Kissimmee Gateway Airport in Kissimmee, Florida.^[36]
• BuNo 136691 - USS Hornet Museum at the former Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California.^[37]

S2F-3 (S-2D)

• BuNo 147870 - Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe, Hawaii.^[38]
• BuNo 148730 - NAS Jacksonville Heritage Park, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida^[39]
• BuNo 149240 - Patuxent River Naval Air Museum adjacent to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Lexington Park, Maryland.^[40]

S2F-3S (S-2E)

• BuNo 151647 - National Naval Aviation Museum, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida^[41][42]
• BuNo 151657 - USS Yorktown (CV-10) at the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.^[43]
• BuNo 152337 - Grumman Greenhouse, an art installation outside of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[44]

References

Further reading

• Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix. Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix, ed. S-2 Tracker & Turbo Tracker. Serie Aeronaval (in Spanish). 26. Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Fuerzas Aeronavales. Retrieved 2014-09-10.