{"id":100699,"date":"2026-05-25T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=100699"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:47:53","slug":"cp-121-tracker-carrier-borne-asw-powerhouse-turned-aerial-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/cp-121-tracker-carrier-borne-asw-powerhouse-turned-aerial-firefighter\/","title":{"rendered":"CP-121 Tracker; carrier-borne ASW powerhouse turned aerial firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ae-i7udXqsw?si=VFq7rh_A1ztdw48a\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Polyus<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 31 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>This is an aircraft carrier borne submarine hunter, dressed up like a firefighter. Its story is one of Cold war posturing, coastal policing, and aerial firefighting. Quite the career for such an unassuming looking aircraft. It was the de Havilland Canada CP-121 Tracker, an icon of Canadian aviation for almost 60 Years.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:30 Historical Context<br \/>\n1:58 Tracker or Gannet?<br \/>\n4:26 Canadian built CS2F-1 Trackers<br \/>\n9:06 CS2F-2<br \/>\n10:23 CS2F-3<br \/>\n13:12 New roles<br \/>\n15:14 Marine Reconnaissance<br \/>\n16:10 Conair Firecat\/Turbo Firecat<br \/>\n17:48 Conclusion<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\nDenmark &#8211; Portland Cello Project<br \/>\nYour Suggestions &#8211; Unicorn Heads<\/p>\n<p>#canada #navy #polyusstudios<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyus Published 31 Jan 2026 This is an aircraft carrier borne submarine hunter, dressed up like a firefighter. Its story is one of Cold war posturing, coastal policing, and aerial firefighting. Quite the career for such an unassuming looking aircraft. It was the de Havilland Canada CP-121 Tracker, an icon of Canadian aviation for almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,1117,7,5,15,663],"tags":[1063,123,617,108,87,745,753],"class_list":["post-100699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-france","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-1950s","tag-aircraft","tag-carriers","tag-coldwar","tag-ontario","tag-rcn","tag-saskatchewan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qcb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102665,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699\/revisions\/102665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}