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Sorry for being "picky", Gents, but the S2F (S2 after the redesignations) was (is) an early fifties plane, and saw fleet service until sometime in the late sixties or early seventies. Checking Wikipedia, they say it entered fleet service in 1954, and was retired in 1970. I fiddled around with a few of them in '61 and '62 when I was stationed at North Island at Overhaul and Repair Out Ferry Line.

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Originally Posted by Rrumbler

Sorry for being "picky", Gents, but the S2F (S2 after the redesignations) was (is) an early fifties plane, and saw fleet service until sometime in the late sixties or early seventies. Checking Wikipedia, they say it entered fleet service in 1954, and was retired in 1970. I fiddled around with a few of them in '61 and '62 when I was stationed at North Island at Overhaul and Repair Out Ferry Line.

How about that! I learned something today, which is good. When I worked on them the guys said they were old planes used for hunting subs, and we all just assumed that they were WWII. I can attest that when they "retired" they were still in service as trainers at NAS Corpus Christi, TX, because I worked on them in 1972; and they were still being used for COD duty off of the trainer carriers, too, because I got a CAT shot off of the Lexington in their COD bird, too.