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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3W Avenger
    Last Military Serial:045 MLD
    Construction Number:2469
    Last Civil Registration:N85650
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3W sn 045 MLD cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Simmons Aviation Services Llc, Pawcatuck, CT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85650.

    Converted to a TBM-3W by General Motors.

    29 September 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands Navy with s/n P-102.

    New serial number assigned: 16-102 MLD

    New serial number assigned: 045 MLD

    14 November 1960

    To Anthony Fokker School.

    1970

    To Nederlands Luchtvaart Museum, Den Haag.

    1976

    To C. Honcoop, Veen, Netherlands.

    May 1976

    To Sir William J. D. Roberts/Strathallan Collection, Auchterader, Scotland.

    21 June 1976


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1976 photo at Strathallan of ex Dutch Navy Grumman TBM-3W2 Avenger as G-BTBM

    23 December 1977

    To Sir William J. D. Roberts/Strathallan Collection, Auchterader, Scotland with new c/r G-BTBM.

    14 July 1981

    To Douglas W. Arnold/Warbirds of Great Britain Ltd, Blackbushe, Yateley keeping c/r G-BTBM.
    Stored unrestored.

    20 April 1982

    Civil registration, G-BTBM, cancelled.

    7 June 1985

    To Aces High Ltd, Duxford with new c/r G-BTBM.

    22 July 1985

    Civil registration, G-BTBM, cancelled.
    Cancelled on sale to USA.

    April 1986

    To Edward A. Deeds, Charlotte, VA with new c/r N61BD.

    July 1989

    To Herbert H. Avery/Averys Antique Airplanes Inc, Morganton, NC with new c/r N452HA.

    6 June 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N452HA (TBM-3, 85650) issued.

    Based at Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, FL.
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    1991


    Photographer: Dalton Walters

    Circa 1992


    Photographer: Dalton Walters

    23 November 1992

    To Averys Antique Airplanes Inc, Morganton, NC keeping c/r N452HA.

    2003


    Photographer: Dalton Walters

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL452HA (TBM-3, 85650) issued.

    19 December 2008

    To Simmons Aviation Services Llc, Pawcatuck, CT keeping c/r N452HA.

    19 December 2008

    To Simmons Aviation Services Llc, Pawcatuck, CT with new c/r N85650.

    19 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Shot at KVYS/Illinois Valley Regional Airport

    19 May 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    19 May 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    19 May 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    19 May 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    19 May 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    20 May 2023


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport for the 2023 TBM Avenger Reunion


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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood

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