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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:53732 RCN
    Construction Number:3794
    Last Civil Registration:CF-KCN
    Latest Owner or Location:Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Avenger AS.3 by Fairey Aviation at Canada.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53732.

    8 June 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 53732.

    Transferred to VS 881.
    Operated with markings: 316

    Transferred to VC 920.

    5 July 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 53732.

    27 September 1960

    To Skyway Air Services Ltd, Langley BC: with c/r CF-KCN.


    Photographer: Forest Protection files

    23 October 1969

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford BC.

    Operated as fire service #617.

    27 August 1972

    Crashed.
    Avenger 53732 had been modified as an aerial spray tanker following its RCN service. The pilot of Conair Avenger #617 was initiating his first fire retardant attack on a lightning strike at the east end of Azure Lake, BC. The bird dog spotter noticed a black stream coming from the aircraft. The aircraft had developed a severe oil leak and being in a very mountainous terrain, the pilot elected to ditch the Avenger onto a shallow delta on the Angus Horne Creek at the east end of Angus Horne Lake. The pilot escaped uninjured and was picked up by a Beaver aircraft from Kamloops. The Tanker was stripped of useful parts and has since been removed.


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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited

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    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger

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