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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:Turbo Firecat
    Last Military Serial:1535 USN
    Construction Number:DHC-034
    Last Civil Registration:C-FOPV
    Compressed ID:Conair Turbo Firecat sn 1535 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Abbotsford International Airport (East Side), Abbotsford, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CS2F-1 by de Havilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 1535.

    Converted to a Turbo Firecat by Conair.
    New construction number, 006, assigned to the airframe.

    By February 1981


    Photographer: Unknown

    24 September 1991

    To Conair Group Inc (Conair Aviation), Abbotsford, BC.

    24 September 1991

    To Conair Group Inc, Abbotsford, BC with new c/r C-FOPV.

    2 April 2002

    To Conair Group Inc, Abbotsford, BC with new c/r C-FOPV.

    Operated as fire service #66.

    7 May 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At the Conair yard at Abbotsford / BC

    By 3 July 2012

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Abbotsford International Airport (East Side), Abbotsford, BC.
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    3 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Stored on the eastern side of Abbotsford Airport BC

    20 May 2015


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: Grumman Firecat of Conair at Abbotsford
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