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Bureau #: 136404 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: N5234A Model(s): S2F-1/S-2A US-2B Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2006 |
History: Delivered to U.S. Navy as 136404. - BOC: October 10, 1955. - SOC: April 1, 1982. - Accepted at Bethpage, NY. - Assigned to VS-39 "Hoot Owls", NAS Quonset Point, RI, early November 1955. -- Deployed aboard USS Antietam CVS-36 and USS Leyte CVS-32. - Transferred to VS-32 "Norseman", NAS Quonset Point, RI, July 1959. -- Deployed aboard USS Wasp CVS-18 and USS Lake Champlain CVS-39. - Rebuilt as US-2B, Naval Rework Depot, NAS Pensacola, FL, 1965-1966. -- ASW equipment removed. - Assigned to NAS Jacksonville as station aircraft, April 5, 1966. - Transferred to NAS Cecil Field, FL, Feb. 5, 1971. - Transferred back NAS Jacksonville, Nov. 13, 1974. - Assigned to VC-2 "Blue Falcons", NAS Oceana, VA, Nov. 11, 1976. - WFU and delivered to MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, May 17, 1978. - Final record shows total flight time as 8258 hours with 1243 landings. CAF/Commemorative Air Force, Midland, TX, May 2002-2006. - Registered as N5234A, Sept. 18, 2002. - Assigned to Old Dominion Squadron, Chesapeake, VA. - Rebuild to airworthy. |
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Source(s): Navy Historian/Naval Aviation History Branch, Washington, DC via CAF/Commemorative Air Force Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2006. Photo Source(s): Timothy Cox Photography. Mike Henniger Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2003 |
