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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:53241 RCN
    Construction Number:3303
    Last Civil Registration:CF-IMM
    Latest Owner or Location:Conair Aviation, Abbotsford, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3S by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53241.

    15 July 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 53241 as a Avenger AS.3.

    Transferred to VS 881.
    Operated with markings: 307

    Transferred to VC 920.

    10 January 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    From 1958 to 1969

    To Skyway Air Services, Langley, BC with c/r CF-IMM.

    Operated as fire service #604.


    Photographer: Forest Protection Files
    Notes: at Fredericton

    To Conair Aviation, Abbotsford, BC.

    14 May 1973

    Crashed.
    While spraying in the Sussex area, NB. The aircraft was destroyed on impact, and burned, but parts were salvaged by the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum (Goffs, NS) and used on their #24 display. (CF-ZYC) - Pilot Buchanan suffered a broken leg.


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    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited

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    Terry Fletcher
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