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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:69344 USN
    Construction Number:2083
    Last Civil Registration:N66475
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 69344 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1945

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 69344.

    Circa 1950

    To Skyway Air Services, Vancouver Island with new c/r N66475.

    After 1951


    Photographer: Forest Protection

    11 June 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR66475 (TBM-3E, 2083) issued.

    To Ball Ralston keeping c/r N66475.

    From 1966 to 1970

    To AV Aircraft Co., Deming, NM keeping c/r N66475.

    4 November 1969


    Photographer: Barney Deatrick
    Notes: At Lancaster Fox Field, California

    1971

    To Hemet Valley Flying Service, Hemet, CA keeping c/r N66475.

    1974

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Stockton CA.

    Circa March 1988


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the USS Yorktown.

    Circa March 1988


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the USS Yorktown.

    1989

    Based at Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.
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    30 March 1994

    To unknown owner with c/r N66475.
    Sale reported to a new owner in New York, NY.

    1 January 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR66475 (TBM-3E, 2083) issued.

    1 January 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N66475.
    Sale reported to a new owner in New York, NY.

    11 October 2012

    Civil registration, N66475, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in New York, NY.
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