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S-2 Airframes Lined Up in the Evening Light

Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson is well known as the storage location for hundreds/thousands of airframes that may either return to service or may provide spare parts for airframes still in service.  Just outside the perimeter of the base are some privately owned facilities that also have a lot of old airframes.  Whether they will provide parts to support operations somewhere or will ultimately just become scrap metal, I don’t know. One of these facilities has an extensive collection of S-2 airframes.  They are lined up in rows and, as the evening light came in, they looked particularly interesting.  A longer lens allowed some compression of the perspective for these aircraft and their bare metal picked up the light nicely.  I imagine none of these will ever be flying again but I hope they survive for a long time.

End of the Line at Abbotsford

My first trip to Abbotsford for the airshow got me there pretty early.  I was hanging around prior to meeting up with my friend and I saw a couple of old S-2 Trackers that were sitting in a field.  These were clearly waterbombers in days gone by but they have reached the end of the road as far as their flying career is concerned.  I understand that they were due to be heading off soon.  I was glad to see them before they went.  Seeing them flying would have been better of course.