Allied Air Force Tracker

[Dutchy]

Hi guys,

New on this message board, but immediately a question on the Allied Air Force Grumman Tracker...

I have to go to Philadelphia for my boss to follow a course on a new product. My colleague already followed this course a couple of weeks ago. Actually besides the point, but as I have to plan a free weekend and a big fan of the Stoof, I was wondering who can tell me anything on the above mentioned Grumman Tracker.

I heard stories that the Allied Air Force lost their aircraft and they are owned by the airport at the moment. I wanted to take a look at the aircraft, but my colleague told me the aircraft is not at Queen City Airport anymore.

Any one any info on this Stoof?

Hope somebody knows!

MTIA

Paul

[Paul Draper]

My intel tells me that the stoof is gone from Allentown. Where it went...I don't know. I just searched the FAA database and got this...I hope it's not true!

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Deregistered Aircraft 1 of 1

Aircraft Description
Serial Number 147535 Type Registration Individual
Manufacturer Name GRUMMAN Certificate Issue Date None
Model ES-2D/G-89 Mode S Code 50357017
Year Manufacturer 1959 Cancel Date None
Reason for Cancellation Destroyed Exported To
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Distroyed!!!! I Hope not. This Stoof was VERY complete. It still had the MAD boom, radome, search light, and most of it's mission equipment inside. The paint was a little rough, but could have been a very nice Stoof with some TLC.

It was sold on EBAY some months ago...anybody know who actually bought it???

Here are some pictures I took of it almost a year ago on an un-seasonably warm December day in Allentown.

Page 1: http://www.geocities.com/psdraper/
Page 2: http://www.geocities.com/ttskipp/

I have a contact at the airport authority who could possibly shed some light on this. Let's hope the Stoof wasn't distroyed!

Last edited by Paul Draper on Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Dutchy]

Paul,

Thank you for the info thusfar! I also hope it is not true. I had seen the photos on the site you mentioned and that was one of the biggest reasons to go there. It is/was still very complete in contrary to the water bombers...

Any one else any info? To whom was it sold?

Again MTIA!