CDF S-2A

The photo is a picture that TL Stein’s Dad (TW Stein) took of the first S-2 that CDF (predecessor agency to CAL FIRE) took delivery of in February 1972. He says:

My father took this photo within an hour of it arriving from the AMARC facility. As pictured, the original fleet of S-2’s served with VT-27 “Boomers” training squadron out of Corpus Christi, Texas. One thing I remember vividly, is that one of the aircraft ferried in that morning still had a practice torpedo in the bomb bay.

I love knowing something about the history of the aircrafts that I am writing about, that there was a life before it was upgraded and retrofitted to work as an air tanker. History makes things come alive, again and again.

There are two short YouTube videos of a CAL FIRE S-2A here and here.