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SQUADRON SIGNAL S2F TRACKER IN ACTION GRUMMAN USN VS VT VC WF-2 RCN CS2F RAN
       

SQUADRON SIGNAL S2F TRACKER IN ACTION GRUMMAN USN VS RCN RAN

SQUADRON SIGNAL PUBLICATIONS AIRCRAFT No.100 (1990)

BY JIM SULLIVAN.  COLOR BY DON GREER.  ILLUSTRATED BY PERRY MANLEY & JOE SEWELL

INTRODUCTION (GRUMMAN XS2F-1 TRACKER PROTOTYPE, GRUMMAN AF-2W GUARDIAN, GRUMMAN TBM-3W TBM-3S AVENGER HUNTER-KILLER TEAMS ASW)

S2F-1 S-2A (GRUMMAN BETHPAGE, MAGNETIC ANOMALY DETECTOR MAD BOOM, YS2F-1 TRACKER NATC PATUXENT RIVER, NAALF FENTRESS,

ECM DIRECTION FINDER ANTENNA ILLUSTRATION

ENGINE NACELLE DETAILED ILLUSTRATION

US-2A UTILITY AIRCRAFT (CONVERSION DETAILS, MCAF NEW RIVER, MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NAF WASHINGTON DC)

S2F-1T TS-2A MULTI-ENGINE TRAINER (NAS CORPUS CHRISTI, VT-27 USS ANTIETAM, NAS LEMOORE VT-31, ATU-611, VT-27, VT-28)

US-2B (NAS MIRAMAR, MCAS QUANTICO)

S2F-1S S-2B (USS BENNINGTON VS-33)

S2F-1S1 S-2F (VS-21 NAS NORTH ISLAND, VS-24 NAS NORFOLK)

CANADIAN ARMED FORCES DE HAVILLAND CANADA CS2F-2 ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY RCN HMCS BONAVENTURE, MARITIME RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON MR-880, CFB SHEARWATER HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA, ANTENNA CONFIGURATION)

S2F-2 S-2C (WEAPONS BAY/ENGINE NACELLE, HORIZONTAL STABILIZER DETAIL, VS-38 USS BADOENG STRAIT CVE-116, USS LEYTE VS-39)

US-2C (NAS QUONSET POINT VU-2, VC-5 NAS ATSUGI, VC-4 NAS CECIL FIELD, NAS GUANTANAMO CUBA, VU-10 NAS WASHINGTON DC, VC-1 NAS NORTH ISLAND)

S2F-2P RS-2C PHOTO RECONNAISSANCE (CAMERA INSTALLATION DETAILS)

S2F-3 S-2D (FUSELAGE NACELLE DEVELOPMENT, US NAVY TEST PILOT SCHOOL, USS RANDOLPH, ENGINE COWLING DEVELOPMENT, INTERIOR CREW STATION PHOTOGRAPHS, NAS WILLOW GROVE)

US-2D ES-2D

S2F-3S S-2E (NAS ROTA SPAIN, USS INTREPID, VS-23, CHOCOLATE MOUNTAIN AERIAL WEAPONS TESTING RANGE)

S-2G (NRL YS-2G, NAS NORTH ISLAND, NAS QUONSET POINT RHODE ISLAND, USS TICONDEROGA)

FOREIGN NAVIES (DUTCH NAVY, JMSDF JAPAN, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY RAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR FORCE, URUGUAYAN NAVY, VENEZUELAN NAVY)

FIRE FIGHTING TURBO TRACKER

TF-1 C-1A TRADER CARRIER ONBOARD DELIVERY COD (USS LEXINGTON, USS KITTY HAWK)

WF-2 E-1B TRACER WILLIE FUDD STOOF WITH A ROOF (VAW, RVAW)

OPERATIONS (VS-24 USS INTREPID, VS-21 VS-31 USS PRINCETON, VS-26 NAS NORFOLK, VS-27 USS WASP, NAS OAKLAND, VS-22 NAS KEY WEST, PACIFIC MISSILE TEST RANGE PT MUGU, VS-36 USS RANDOLPH)

NAVAL AVIATION TEST CENTER NATC NAS PATUXENT RIVER MD

CARRIER TRIALS USS CORAL SEA CV-43

US NAVAL TEST PILOT SCHOO USNTPS

NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY NRL WASHINGTON DC

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE PMR & PACIFIC MISSILE TEST CENTER PMTC PT MUGU CA

NAVAL WEAPONS EVALUATION FACILITY NWEF KIRTLAND AFB NM

NAVAL AIR DEVELOPMENT UNIT NADU

NAVAL AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER NADC JOHNSVILLE PA

AIR DEVELOPMENT SQUADRONS VX “AIRDEVRON”

FLEET COMPOSITE SQUADRONS VC

UTILITY SQUADRONS VU

AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING SQUADRONS VAW

AIRBORNE ANTI-SUBMARINE SQUADRONS VS

REPLACEMENT AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING SQUADRONS RVAW

USNR NAVAL RESERVE SQUADRONS

TRAINING SQUADRONS VT

ADVANCED TRAINING SQUADRONS ATU

NAVAL AIR TECHNICAL TRAINING NAVTECHTRA

NAVAL AIR RESERVE TRAININ GUNITS NARTU

USMC MARINE UTILITY & COMMAND TRACKERS US-2B

STATION AND FACILITY UTILITY AND COMMAND TRACKERS USN

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Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia

The Grumman S-2 Tracker (previously S2F prior to 1962) was the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to enter service with the U.S. Navy. Designed and initially built by Grumman, the Tracker was of conventional design with twin engines, a high wing and tricycle undercarriage. The type was exported to a number of navies around the world. Introduced in 1952 the Tracker saw service in the USN until the mid-1970s with a few aircraft remaining in service with other air arms into the 21st century.

The Tracker was intended as a replacement for the Grumman AF Guardian, which was the first purpose-built aircraft system for ASW, using two airframes for two versions, one with the detection gear, and the other with the weapon systems. The Tracker combined both functions in one aircraft. Grumman's design (model G-89) was for a large high-wing monoplane with twin Wright Cyclone R-1820 nine-cylinder radial engines, a yoke type arrestor hook and a crew of four. Both the two prototypes XS2F-1 and 15 production aircraft, S2F-1 were ordered at the same time, on 30 June 1950. The first flight was conducted on 4 December 1952, and production aircraft entered service with VS-26, in February 1954.

Follow-on versions included the WF Tracer and TF Trader, which became the Grumman E-1 Tracer and Grumman C-1 Trader in the tri-service designation standardization of 1962. The S-2 carried the nickname "Stoof" (S-two-F) throughout its military career; and the E-1 Tracer variant with the large overhead radome was colloquially called the "stoof with a roof."

The Tracer was fitted with the Hazeltine AN/APS-82 in its radome and fuselage. The radar featured an Airborne Moving Target Indicator (AMTI), which compares the video of one pulse time to the next in reflected radar energy to distinguish a flying aircraft from the clutter produced by wave action at the ocean's surface. The energy reflected from an aircraft changes position rapidly compared to the energy reflected from the surrounding sea. Separating a moving object from stationary background is accomplished by suitable hardware.

As one of the first carrier based early warning aircraft, the E-1 Tracer served from 1958 to 1977, although considered only an interim type, being replaced by the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye in the mid-1960s. During the early years of the Vietnam War, E-1s saw extensive service, providing combat air patrol (CAP) fighters with target vectors, and controlling Alpha strikes over North Vietnam. With a radius of 250–300 miles, the E-1B served as an early warning to strike aircraft, of enemy MiG's activity.

By May 1973, most E-1Bs were retired, with only four RVAW-110 Tracers based at NAS North Island, California, still in service. These aircraft were soon retired during mid-summer 1977 following a final cruise on board the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) and were ferried to the Davis-Monthan storage facility. The E-1B Tracer was struck from the inventory by 1977.

The Tracker carried an internal torpedo bay capable of carrying two lightweight torpedoes or one nuclear depth charge. There were six underwing hard points for rocket pods and conventional depth charges or up to four additional torpedoes. A ventrally mounted retractable radome for AN/APS-38 radar and a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) AN/ASQ-8 mounted on an extendable rear mounted boom were also fitted. Early model Trackers had an Electronic Surveillance Measures (ESM) pod mounted dorsally just aft of the front seat overhead hatches and were also fitted with a smoke particle detector or sniffer. Later S-2s had the sniffer removed and had the ESM antennae moved to four rounded extensions on the wingtips. A 70 million candlepower searchlight was mounted on the starboard wing. The engine nacelles carried JEZEBEL sonobouys in the rear (16 in early marks, 32 in the S-2E/G). Early Trackers also carried 60 explosive charges dispensed ventrally from the rear of the fuselage used for active sonar (JULIE) with the AN/AQA-3 and later AQA-4 detection sets, whereas the introduction of active sonobouys and AN/AQA-7 with the S-2G conversion saw these removed. Smoke dispensers were mounted on the port ventral surface of the nacelles in groups of three each.

The Grumman C-1 Trader was a carrier onboard delivery (COD) variant of the Grumman S-2 Tracker.  The C-1 (originally the TF-1) was outfitted to carry nine passengers or 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) of cargo and first flew in January 1955.  Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the C-1 Trader carried mail and supplies to aircraft carriers on station in the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War and also served as a trainer for all-weather carrier operations. Over its production life 83 C-1 Traders were built, of which four were converted into EC-1A Tracer electronic countermeasures aircraft. The last C-1 was retired from USN service in 1988; it was the last radial engine aircraft in U.S military service.

Between 1967 and 1984 the Royal Australian Navy operated two Squadrons of S-2E and S-2G variants, based at NAS Nowra (HMAS Albatross). These were VS-816 front line squadron, which embarked in the Majestic class aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, as part of the 21st Carrier Air Group whenever that ship was deployed; and VC-851 training squadron.  During approximately 17 years of operation of the Tracker, the RAN lost only one S-2 during aircraft operations due to an accident at sea on 10 February 1975. However, on 4 December 1976, a deliberately lit fire in a hangar at Nowra destroyed or badly damaged a large proportion of the RAN's complement of Trackers. These were subsequently replaced with ex-USN aircraft. The replacement aircraft were all S-2Gs, including the original aircraft modified by the USN to that status. This saw the introduction of AQA-7 acoustic gear into RAN service and all RAN operational Trackers were subsequently modified to this standard.

In 1954, de Havilland Canada entered into a contract to build Trackers under license to replace the outmoded TBM-3E Avengers being used by the Royal Canadian Navy. A total of 99 Canadian-built Trackers entered service, starting in 1956. From 1957 onwards, these aircraft operated from the newly deployed aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure and various shore bases. All the Canadian Trackers were built to the earlier "A" model airframe design with a length of 42 feet (12.80 m) (c.f. 43' 6" for later model Trackers) in order to fit in the Bonnie's hangar. In 1960, 17 active duty CS2F-1 aircraft were transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy. In 1964, a pair of CS2F-1 aircraft were stripped of armament and ASW electronics, converted to transports, and subsequently used for carrier onboard delivery. The CS2F-1, -2, and -3 were redesignated as the CP-121 Mk.1, Mk. 2, and Mk. 3 respectively following the unification of Canadian forces in 1968.

After Bonaventure was decommissioned in 1970, all remaining Canadian Trackers were transferred to shore bases. This limited their usefulness for ASW patrols, and between 1974 and 1981 gradually all but 20 were placed in storage and the remainder were stripped of their ASW gear. The remaining active-duty Trackers served until 1990 on fisheries protection and maritime patrol duties. A handful of Trackers were kept in flying condition until the late 1990s but were no longer used for active service.

A single Grumman-built S2F-1, serial number X-500, was sold to de Havilland Canada before Canadian production commenced. It was initially used for quality control purposes during Canadian production, and was later given a new RCN serial number, upgraded to CS2F-1 standards, and used to train RCN ground and maintenance personnel. This aircraft was placed in storage in 1972 and as of August 2013 was undergoing restoration at the Shearwater Aviation Museum.

The Royal Netherlands Navy, (Netherlands Naval Aviation Service or MLD) received 28 [Serials 146 to 173] S-2A (S2F-1) aircraft under MDAP from US Navy in 1960. 17 [Serials 180-196] additional CS-2A (CS2F-1) aircraft formerly operated by the Royal Canadian Navy. were delivered between December 1960 and September 1961 after being overhauled by Fairey Canada. These aircraft were operated from Valkenburg Naval Air Base as well as from the light carrier Karel Doorman until a fire in 1968 took that ship out of Dutch service.

A total of 18 aircraft were converted to S-2N (for Netherlands) standard by Fairey Canada in 1968–1970 for ASW and MR use with 1 Sqn (at Hato International Airport), of which four were converted to US-2N trainer/transport standards in May 1971. Most of the de Havilland Canada-built CS-2As were scrapped by 1970 or used for ground instruction. The last Tracker in MLD service was withdrawn in January 1976, with some transferred to the Turkish Navy.

Grumman produced 1,185 Trackers. Another 99 aircraft carrying the CS2F designation were manufactured in Canada under license by de Havilland Canada. U.S.-built versions of the Tracker were sold to various nations, including Australia, Japan, Turkey and Taiwan.

Argentina and Brazil are the last countries to still use the Tracker.

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  • Author: A.A. Milne
  • Book Title: SQUADRON SIGNAL S2F
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Squadron
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