HARS members today were hard at work re-installing the rudder on 851, the HARS Grumman S-2G Tracker.  Project Leader, Brian Kelly, Bill Smith and Mike Delahunty all on hand to help make it possible.  Brian and his group are working hard to restore 851, with the long-term goal of possibly seeing it return to the [...]

The concept for the Grumman Tracker started as a design called the G-89. The G-89 proposal called for a twin engine aircraft capable of carrying weapons, sonobouys, and other submarine detection equipment, such as a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) and search radar all from a carrier flight deck. The United States Navy offered Grumman a contract to build the [...]