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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:CS2F-2 Tracker
    Last Military Serial:733B CAF
    Construction Number:DHC-099
    Last Civil Registration:C-FUDQ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada CS2F-2 sn 733B...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Air and Space Museum, CBW Downsview (formerly), Toronto, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CS2F-2 by de Havilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1600.

    Transferred to VX-10.

    Transferred to CFB Borden, ON.

    New serial number assigned: 733B CAF
    Became 733B at Borden.

    1988

    Transferred to AETE, CFB Borden.

    1993

    Transferred to School of Aerospace Technology and Engineering, CFB Borden.
    Operated with markings: 121600
    Marked with fake serial number, 121600.

    7 April 1996

    To Aero-Composites Canada Inc, Hamilton, ON with new c/r C-FUDQ.

    1997

    To Downsview for restoration.

    13 August 1998

    Civil registration, C-FUDQ, cancelled.

    To Canadian Air and Space Museum, CBW Downsview (formerly), Toronto, ON.
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    24 May 2008


    Photographer: Unknown

    3 February 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: Grumman CS-2F / CP-121 Tracker - Royal Canadian Navy - stored at Toronto Downsview Airport (YZD) -aquired by the now closed Canadian Air and Space Museum, Toronto-Downsview now stored at the Bombardier plant and waiting for a hopefully better future

    3 February 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: Grumman CS-2F / CP-121 Tracker - Royal Canadian Navy - stored at Toronto Downsview Airport (YZD)

    27 September 2024


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: 1600 - Royal Canadian Navy - now part of the collection of the Canadian Air and Space Conservancy (CASC) at Edenvale Aerodrome, Stayner/Ontario
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     Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Transport Canada
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