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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:53334 RCN
    Construction Number:3396
    Last Civil Registration:C-GLEG
    Latest Owner or Location:Forrest Protection Limited

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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 53334.

    17 October 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 53334 and operated with these markings: 349.

    Transferred to VS 880.
    Operated with markings: 349

    Transferred to VU 33.

    22 April 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    Circa May 1958

    To Airspray Ltd, Wetaskiwin, SK with new c/r CF-KPJ.

    Circa July 1958


    Photographer: Gordon Hunter
    Notes: Airspray TBMs CF-KYA and CF-KPJ at an air show in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, 1958. The company name is is plain yellow.

    1963

    To Klamath Aircraft Inc, Klamath Falls, Oregon, with new c/r N68663.
    Operated with markings: 702

    Circa 11 July 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68663 (TBM-3E, 53334) issued.

    11 July 1967

    To Sis Q Flying Service Inc, Santa Rosa, CA keeping c/r N68663.

    Operated as fire service #E28.

    Operated as fire service #E25.


    Photographer: James Appleby
    Notes: Edmonton, Alberta


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: At Santa Rose, California

    17 December 1974

    Civil registration, N68663, cancelled.

    December 1974

    To Forrest Protection Limited with new c/r C-GLEG.
    Puchased by FPL for $13,000 (CDN) plus $2,000 for engine.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Forestry Protection Files

    Operated as fire service #E25.

    4 July 1975

    Crashed.
    Piloted by Bert Archer and owned by FPL crashed from fuel starvation on the shoulder of Highway 8 approx. 1 mile north of the Dunphy Airstrip while on a routine flight check out of Dunphy Airstrip while being readied for a post-larval experimental spray of adult budworm. Archer was unhurt but the aircraft was a write-off and was later stripped and junked.
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    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
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     Terry Fletcher
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