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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3U Avenger
    Last Military Serial:91171 USN
    Construction Number:4076
    Last Civil Registration:C-FBQT
    Latest Owner or Location:Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, HI

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1945

    Constructed as a TBM-3U by General Motors.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 91171.

    From 6 November 1956 to 1959

    To U S Department of Agriculture Forest Service, San Francisco, CA with new c/r N107Z (TBM-3, 91171).
    Operated with markings: #85

    21 July 1959

    Civil registration, N107Z, cancelled.

    August 1959

    To unknown owner with c/r N7858C.

    1961


    Photographer: Bob Forbes
    Notes: At Santa Barbara Airport, California

    From 1963 to 1964

    To Parsons Airpark Inc, Carpinteria, CA keeping c/r N7858C.
    Markings added: #85

    1964

    To T. A. Underwood, Buckeye, AZ keeping c/r N7858C.

    Circa 10 February 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7858C (TBM-3E, 91171) issued.

    10 February 1965

    To Aerial Applicators Inc, Salt Lake City, UT keeping c/r N7858C.

    From 1966 to 1972

    To Aerial Applicators keeping c/r N7858C.
    Markings added: D17

    After 1967


    Photographer: Dan Dineen
    Notes: at Salt Lake City, Utah

    Operated as fire service #21.

    28 April 1972

    Civil registration, N7858C, cancelled.

    From May 1972 to 1976

    To Hicks and Lawrence, Saint. Thomas, ON with new c/r CF-BQT.

    After 1972


    Photographer: Michael Zygun
    Notes: In Hicks and Lawrence livery

    1976

    To Ag-Air, Dawson Creek, BC with new c/r C-FBQT.

    9 August 1994

    To Ag Air Ltd, Baytree, AB keeping c/r C-FBQT.

    From 1995 to 2008

    Withdrawn from use.
    In open storage at Dawson Creek, British Columbia.


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: I photographed this TBM Avenger at Dawson Creek in the early 1990s. At the time it was owned by Ag Air and had been used as an agricultural sprayer.

    6 October 2004


    Photographer: Shaun Scandrett
    Notes: at Wetaskiwin, Alberta

    6 March 2008

    Civil registration, C-FBQT, cancelled.

    Operated as fire service #D17.

    21 January 2009

    To James B Wilson, Fort Saint John, BC with new c/r C-FBQT (TBM-3E, 91171).

    By June 2009

    Noted at at the North Peace River Regional Airport (YXJ), Fort St. John, British Columbia.

    2014

    To Mike Rawson keeping c/r C-FBQT.
    For restoration as Tanker 18.

    December 2017

    To Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, HI.

    Repair started.
    Under-going restoration to represent the VT-51 example flown by the late President George H.W. Bush.

    3 June 2021


    Photographer: Hayman Tam
    Notes: Restored Avenger now on display.


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    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    Transport Canada

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson

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