Survivors
After disposal by the U.S. Navy five Guardians saw many years service with Aero Union based at Chico California in the forest fire-fighting role, the last being retired in 1978.
- AF-2S Guardian, BuNo 123088, is owned by Airstation Inc. in Arlington, Washington.
- AF-2S Guardian, BuNo 123100, is on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. It was the seventh AF-2S produced. The aircraft was operated as a firefighter until 1978. It was acquired by the museum in 1980. It is displayed in the colors of its first Navy assignment, though still carries the non-historical number "30" on the cowling, for many years the aircraft's call-sign while operating as a fire fighting aircraft;
- AF-2S Guardian, BuNo 126731, is on display at the Commemorative Air Force's Mesa facility in Mesa, Arizona. The aircraft was restored in 1997, and flew briefly with the CAF as "Navy 126731/SM/10".
- AF-2S Guardian, BuNo 129233, is on display at the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)