Editing Grumman C-1 Trader (section)

==Operational history==
[[File:C-1A Trader landing on USS Midway (CV-41), circa in 1982.jpg|thumb|left|C-1 Trader lands on [[USS Midway (CV-41)]], 1982]]
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the C-1 Trader carried mail and supplies to [[aircraft carrier]]s on station in the Pacific Ocean during the [[Vietnam War]] and also served as a trainer for all-weather carrier operations. Over its production life 87 C-1 Traders were built, of which four were converted into '''EC-1A Tracer''' [[electronic countermeasures]] aircraft.<ref>{{cite book |last= Donald |first= David |author2=Daniel J. March |title= Carrier Aviation Air Power Directory |year= 2001 |publisher= AIRtime Publishing |location= Norwalk, CT |isbn= 1-880588-43-9 }}</ref> The last C-1 was retired from USN service in 1988; it was the second-to-last radial-engine aircraft in U.S. military service (The last [[C-131]] wasn't retired until 1990). As of 2010, approximately ten were still airworthy in civil hands, operating as [[warbird]]s.{{citation needed|date=August 2010}}

In 1956 the U.S. Marine Corps Test Unit Number 1 (MCTU #1) tested the concept of using the TF-1 variant as a vehicle for inserting reconnaissance teams behind enemy lines.  “On 9 July 1956 MCTU Recon Marines became the first to parachute from a TF-1.  Less than three weeks later, four recon parachutists launched from the [[USS Bennington (CV-20)|USS ''Bennington'']], which was 70 miles at sea, and jumped on a desert drop zone near El Centro California, some 100 miles inland.  For the first time in Marine Corps and Naval Aviation history, the technique of introducing recon personnel off a carrier sea base to an inland objective had successfully been tested.”<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lanning and Stubbe|first1=Michael, Ray|title=Inside Force Recon|date=1989|publisher=Ivy Books|isbn=-08041-0301-1|page=34|ref=21}}</ref>

In August 2010, [[Brazilian Naval Aviation]] announced that it would buy and modernize eight C-1 airframes to serve in [[carrier onboard delivery]] (COD) and [[aerial refueling]] roles for use on its aircraft carrier [[Brazilian aircraft carrier São Paulo (A12)|''São Paulo'']].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/23/346412/brazilian-navy-buys-traders.html|title=Brazilian navy buys Traders}}</ref>  In 2011 contract was signed with Marsh Aviation to convert four ex-US Navy C-1A Trader airframes into KC-2 Turbo Traders.<ref name=FG>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/brazilian-navy-restarts-kc-2-turbo-trader-contract-406169/|title = Brazilian Navy restarts KC-2 Turbo Trader contract|website=FlightGlobal}}</ref> The first KC-2 prototype flight was expected for November 2017 and the delivery of the first operational aircraft was scheduled for December 2018; in 2014 the contract was reaffirmed,<ref name="FG"/> but by 2023, with no aircraft having been delivered and ''São Paulo'' long since having been stricken, the contract was cancelled.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brazilian Navy kills KC-2 project 12 years later and without receiving any aircraft |url=https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/defense-updates/brazilian-navy-kills-kc-2-project-12-years-later-and-without-receiving-any-aircraft/ |access-date=14 November 2024 |publisher=[[The Rio Times]] |date=29 March 2023}}</ref>