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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53593 USN
    Construction Number:3655
    Last Civil Registration:N6822C
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 53593 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Circa July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53593.

    27 August 1957

    To TBM Inc, Tulare, CA with new c/r N6822C.

    January 1970

    Civil registration N5567A reserved but not taken up.
    Open storage at Tulare- Sequoia, CA.

    September 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: n open storage at Sequoia, California in 1977 was this Grumman TBM-3 BuAer 53593 with hand-painted registration N5567A.It had been owned by a fire tanker company since 1958 but not converted, retaining its former US Navy markings

    1 January 1982

    To US Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, FL with new c/r N6822C.

    1982

    Restored.
    Restored for ferry to Naval Aviation Museum.

    September 1982

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Museum of Naval Aviation, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    30 March 1993

    Based at National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    19 August 1999

    Civil registration, N6822C, cancelled.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Matt Maranto
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