Photos in this set were derived from three different Trackers. Photos by Jerry Proc depict the CS2F-2 Tracker (s/n 1600) held in the collection of the Canadian Aerospace Museum, Toronto. Other photos are of CS2F-2 (s/n 1577) held in the collection of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. Photos taken by Bruce Macmillian came from Tracker examples owned by Conair at the Abbotsford, BC Airport. As expected, most or all of the electronics had been stripped out by the Navy.

General view of the cockpit. The dangling wiring harnesses are all that's left from the installation of the display screen for the Anti submarine Warfare Tactical Navigation System (ASWTNS), a system that was developed and evaluated by VX 10 (Experimental) squadron. The green box is hinged and is currently in the up position. Note the binocular case affixed to the metallic box. A complete CS2F-2 cockpit instrument layout can be seen at the bottom of this page.

CS2F-2 pilot's yoke and instrument panel.

Pilot's upper switches.

Co-pilot's yoke and instrument panel.

Co-pilot's upper switches.

Overhead control panel.

Aft portion of the overhead control panel looking directly up from the deck.

All photos in this table by Jerry Proc and depict CS2F-2 s/n 1600

No. 3 Position - port side. All the equipment is gone. The green box in the vicinity of the lower left portion of the window is an ashtray.

Aft of the No. 3 position. (Photo by Bruce Macmillan)

Although stripped of equipment, stencilling reveals the positions of some of the equipment at the No. 4 position on the starboard side.

Another view of the wiring harnesses found behind the seat at No. 3 position. In aircraft s/n 1600, the seat is missing.

The  hydraulic reservoir, piping and valves which operate the folding wings.

Unless otherwise noted, all photos in this table by Jerry Proc.

Port side, aft view. (Photo by Bruce Macmillan)

Starboard side aft view. The blue box in the corner is the AN/ARN-6 radio compass. (Photo by Jerry Proc)

Port side view of the area aft of the No.3 position. This entire area consists of equipment racks. (Photo by Bruce Macmillan)

Another aft view from an Abbotsford aircraft. (Photo by Bruce Macmillan)

Tracker s/n 1577 was built in late 1959 and was accepted by the RCN on December 10, 1959. In September 1960, it was based at CFB Shearwater where it was allocated to VS 880 Squadron. The Tracker operated from both a shore base and HMCS Bonaventure until 1966. On January 14, 1970, it was transferred to the Canadian School of Aerospace Technology and Engineering at CFB Borden where it remained as an instructional aircraft for 23 years until declared surplus in June 1993.   While at the school,  it carried instructional airframe designations A732 and 732B. When the airframe was declared surplus and sold to the civil market, it was assigned civil registration C-FUDH. The Canadian Warplane Heritage obtained the airframe in late 1997.

No. 3 position. The interior of s/n 1577 has been repainted in this brilliant aquamarine colour at some point in it's past. It is not representative of a Tracker's interior paint scheme which is was  finished in a  "chromate flat base green".

This box with a hinged lid and locking pins was used to store marine (smoke) markers.

This is the seat from the No. 4 position.

Looking forward from the belly access door. This is the APS-38 radar in the retracted position.

Looking aft while standing at the belly access door. The MAD boom holster runs along the fuselage centreline.

All photos in this table are of CS2F-2 s/n 1577 and taken by Jerry Proc.

	The instrument panel layout for the CS2F-2.  Source: "CS2F-2 Tracker Airframe, Armament and Electrics," 1965. Click to enlarge. (Provided by Leo Pettipas)
	Tracker nameplate from s/n 1600. It's located on the bulkhead directly aft of the pilot's seat.. Click to enlarge. (Photo by Jerry Proc)
	Retro Marine Marker Ejection System. Smoke flares, ejected by the equipment shown in the image,  was used to mark objects in the water or as a reference marker for the AN/ASN-501  Ernie Cable expands on this. "The CS2F-3 did have the smoke launcher and the ASN-501.  Russ Bennett, CO of MR880 (1977 -79) recalls that neither system was in the 880 Sqn aircraft at the time. The CP121 did not have the ASN-501.  I believe it was removed during or just before the "Tracker Surveillance Update Program (TSUP). The TSUP aircraft used the now defunct Omega as its navigation platform. It was subject to lane shifts but, they were not to difficult to resolve.   In summary, the CS2F-3 did have the retro launcher. Due to the high drift rate of the ASN501, it was also used for marking a position in the featureless ocean thus helping to null out the system drift in the ASN-501 navigation and plotting system. The CP-121 Maritime Reconnaissance version (Tracker Surveillance Update Program) had neither the retro launcher nor the ASN-501 and relied on the Omega system for navigation accuracy and repeatability when returning to the same spot over the ocean.

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Credits and References:

1) Bruce Macmillan, <bruce_macmillan(at)telus.net>
2) Leo Pettipas <lpettip(at)mts.net>
3) Dave Tate < dtate(at)travel-net.com>
4) Keith Harrington <va7ssb(at)hotmail.com>
5) Tommy Thomason  <tommythomason(at)sbcglobal.net>
6) Ernie Cable, Associate Air Force Historian. Shearwater Aviation Museum.  <erncar(at)ns.sympatico.ca>

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