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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBF-1C Avenger
    Last Military Serial:INST182 RNZAF
    Construction Number:5219
    Compressed ID:Grumman TBF-1C sn INST182 RNZAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBF-1C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 24336.

    From 21 September 1943 to 30 June 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ2504.

    NZ2504 was received by the RNZAF on 21 September 1943 as one of the first shipment of six Avengers. After assembly at Hobsonville it was issued to No. 30 Squadron at Gisborne on 5 October 1943.

    10 July 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n INST182.
    For use as gate guardian at RNZAF Base, Te Rapa. - Remained painted as NZ2504 and never wore the INST serial.


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: At Te Rapa,New Zealand

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Grumman Avenger being towed over the Port Hills from the port at Lyttleton to the Air Force museum at Wigram (Christchurch NZ)

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Grumman Avenger being towed over the Port Hills from the port at Lyttleton to the Air Force museum at Wigram (Christchurch NZ)

    1978

    To Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island.
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    5 December 1981


    Photographer: Unknown

    Markings Applied: NZ2521
    Its display identity is NZ2521, a No. 31 Squadron Avenger which was lost during a strike on Rabaul on 31 May 1944 with the loss of all three crew members.

    19 November 2012


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Aircraft displayed at the National Air Force Museum of New Zealand at Wigram, Chistchurch

    19 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Airforce Museum of New Zealand at Wigram, Christchurch, South Island.

    8 November 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Without chin number at the Christchurch Airforce Museum, South Island, New Zealand
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