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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3 Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53522 USN
    Construction Number:3584
    Last Civil Registration:N188TD
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3 sn 53522 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Claire Aviation, Philadelphia, PA

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    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3 by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53522.

    From 1963 to 1972

    To Stencel Aero Engineering, Ashville, NC with new c/r N7410C.

    18 April 1967

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number DIA67F0079: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 11:00 hours. The damage was substantial. Incident occurred at the Asheville Airport, Arden, NC. There was an unspecified incident while in flight. The emergency circumstances included; precautionary landing on airport and suspected or known aircraft damage. Report remarks include: Diving run, load ejection test. Pilot chute deployed prematurely, jerked dummy load into aircraft belly.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    By 1974

    Spotted at the Asheville Airport, Asheville, NC with c/r N7410C.

    October 1974


    Photographer: C.Reahard
    Notes: At Asheville, North Carolina

    From 1977 to 1979

    To John J. Stokes, San Marcos, TX keeping c/r N7410C.

    1979

    To Howard E. Pardue, Breckenridge TX keeping c/r N7410C.

    October 1980

    To Howard E. Pardue, Breckenridge TX with new c/r N88HP.

    June 1982


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: TBM Avenger N88HP (Pardue) at Confederate Air Force Airshow, Scholes Field, Galveston, Tx. June 1982

    August 1989

    To John Vanandel/Flying Dutchman Marine Corp, Wilmington de keeping c/r N88HP.

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.

    1 May 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for N88HP (TBM-3, 53522) issued.

    14 June 1996

    To Memphis Warbird Traders Inc, Memphis TN keeping c/r N88HP.

    To Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum/Tom Reilly, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, FL.
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    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts
    Notes: Photographed at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum, in Kissimmee, Florida.

    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts
    Notes: Photographed at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum, in Kissimmee, Florida.

    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts
    Notes: Photographed at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum, in Kissimmee, Florida.

    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts
    Notes: Photographed at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum, in Kissimmee, Florida.

    20 January 1999

    To Tom Duffy/Claire Aviation, Philadelphia PA keeping c/r N88HP.

    20 January 1999

    To Claire Aviation, Philadelphia, PA with new c/r N188TD.

    Based at Tom Duffy Collection, Millville Municipal Airport, New Jersey, NJ.
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    1 May 1999

    To Claire Aviation, Philadelphia, PA with new c/r N188TD.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL188TD (TBM-3, 53522) issued.

    July 2004


    Photographer: Tom Roberts Collection
    Notes: Photographed at the Geneseo Air Show.

    7 March 2009

    Crashed.
    There was one serious injury. The accident occurred at the Millville Municipal Airport (MIV) Millville, NJ, United States while on appoach. The airframe was destroyed. The owner of the airplane explained that the pilot/mechanic had just completed the installation of an overhauled carburetor and that he and the pilot/mechanic had performed test runs of the engine and completed carburetor adjustments with no problems noted...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    11 January 2018

    Civil registration, N188TD, cancelled.


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