This footage, dated 1971, shows the attempted takeoff of a Grumman S-2E Tracker from the catapult of the USS Ticonderoga ...

While the Grumman S-2 Tracker is, for the most part, retired from military service, the aircraft would find a new role as a civilian fire-fighting aircraft. During the 1970s, forestry services in ...

The first aircraft to perform this mission was the Grumman E-1 Tracer (a variant of the S-2 Tracker anti-submarine aircraft), which saw service from 1954 to 1964. The E-1's successor, the E-2 ...