Queen's Day in the Dutch Caribbean, 1964. The carrier Karel Doorman was in port for maintenance and its S-2A Trackers from VSQ 4 were flying from Hato for a couple of weeks. 169, 166, and 146 are seen here. The fourth aircraft, 189, belongs to Curaçao-based VSQ 1 and is a Canadian-built CS-2A, lacking the characeristic ECM dome above the cockpit. Photo by: Hans Mol / Jaap de Moo r collection

Four Curaçao-based, Canadian-built Dutch Trackers seen on detachment at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, now Ceiba International. They are 187, 198, 194 and 180. Photo from: Jaap de Moor collection

Scrapped 1982

Australian Navy photo showing a formation if S-2Es over Ayers Rock. N12-153607 was destroyed in a hangar fire in December 1976 that also destroyed N12-153603/848. The third aircraft in the photo N12-153604/849 was damaged.

CS-2As 192 and 180 taxiing out for a formation flight on Queen's Day. Squadron VSQ-1 was based here with Canadian-built Trackers. The H tail code is for Hato. Photo by: Hans Mol / Jaap de Moor collection

This Tracker, which still carries its former US Navy serial 136681 under the tail plane, was returned to the US Navy in 1977 and stored at Atsugi Air Base, Japan. It was one of eleven ex-Japanese Trackers sold to Native Alaskan Reclamation and Pest Control (Lester Risley) on 27 January 1978, to be converted to airtankers. Registration N217AK was reserved for this aircraft, but in the end Mr. Risley was unable to complete the deal and none of the aircraft ever left Japan. Instead, all eleven were repossessed by the US Navy on 23 January 1979 and ten were subsequently broken up for scrap. The eleventh Tracker (ex 4108) went to South Korea for display at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul.

This Tracker, which still carries its former US Navy serial 136681 under the tail plane, was returned to the US Navy in 1977 and stored at Atsugi Air Base, Japan. It was one of eleven ex-Japanese Trackers sold to Native Alaskan Reclamation and Pest Control (Lester Risley) on 27 January 1978, to be converted to airtankers. Registration N217AK was reserved for this aircraft, but in the end Mr. Risley was unable to complete the deal and none of the aircraft ever left Japan. Instead, all eleven aircraft were repossessed by the US Navy on 23 January 1979 and ten were subsequently broken up for scrap. The eleventh Tracker (ex 4108) went to South Korea for display at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul.

This Tracker is ex US Navy BuNo 144725. It was stored at MASDC in 1980 and sold to Terrance Cosgrove in 1995 as N8115V. It is said to have sustained damage in a landing accident (brake fire?) at Wasilla, AK. It was moved to Big Lake in late 2000 or early 2001 and was stored there as a restoration project with props and fin missing. It was still there in similar condition by May 2012, but its current status is unclear.

The Republic of China Air Force (Taiwan Air Force) operated the S-2T Tracker until late 2017. The S-2Ts were transferred from the Taiwan Naval Aviation fleet to the Air Force in April 2013. Luckily, they kept the same tasks as well as their striking colors! This 2205 showed the photographer the spread-my-wings technique.

Copy-cat !

Beautiful Tracker while warming up its engines