@ Truckee, CA
July 2023
This Grass Valley-based Cal Fire Turbo Tracker departs the 2023 Truckee Tahoe Airshow. Among the Cal Fire air assets are 23 Grumman S-2T 1,200 gallon air-tankers, such as this one. At the turn of the century, these upgraded turbine powered S-2 aircraft replaced older S-2A Trackers that had been in service since 1974. First flown in 1952, the S-2 was in naval service for nations worldwide, only Argentina and Brazil still operate them. Cal Fire has aircraft stationed at 13 air attack and ten helitack bases located statewide.