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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:53610 RCN
    Construction Number:3672
    Last Civil Registration:C-FIMR
    Compressed ID:Fairey Aviation Avenger AS.3 sn 536...
    Latest Owner or Location:Shearwater Aviation Museum, CFB Shearwater, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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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 53610.

    22 July 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 53610.

    30 January 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    Markings Applied: 303

    6 March 1958

    To Wheeler Airlines Ltd, Saint Jovite, QC with new c/r CF-IMR.

    22 October 1965

    To Wheeler-Northland Airways Ltd, Saint Jean, QC keeping c/r CF-IMR.

    Operated as fire service #501.

    1971

    To Evergreen Air Service Ltd, Montreal QUE keeping c/r CF-IMR.

    24 November 1976

    To Forest Protection Limited, Lincoln, NB with new c/r C-FIMR.
    Purchased for $30,000.

    Operated as fire service #E25.

    Operated as fire service #23.

    7 November 1996

    Assigned civil registration: C-FIMR (TBM 3, 53610)

    17 July 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: As firefighter at Miramichi / New Brunswick

    7 February 2012

    Civil registration, C-FIMR, cancelled.

    25 April 2012

    To The Shearwater Aviation Museum Foundation, Shearwater, NS with new c/r C-FIMR.

    To Shearwater Aviation Museum, Shearwater, NS.

    To Shearwater Aviation Museum, CFB Shearwater, Halifax, NS.
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    13 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Shearwater Aviation Museum.

    13 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Shearwater Aviation Museum.

    13 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Shearwater Aviation Museum.

    13 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Shearwater Aviation Museum.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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