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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3 Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53785 USN
    Construction Number:3847
    Last Civil Registration:N7075C
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3 sn 53785 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a TBM-3 by General Motors.

    From June 1945 to January 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53785.

    From 1957 to 1964

    To Marsh Aviation Co, Litchfield Park, AZ with new c/r N7075C.
    Operated with markings: #23

    From By 1966 to By 1977

    To Reeder Flying Service, Twin Falls, ID keeping c/r N7075C.

    Operated as fire service #55.

    July 1978


    Photographer: Harry Sievers
    Notes: Reeder Flying Service TBM N7075C with spray bars ex tanker 55 at Twin Falls, Idaho, July 1978

    From By 1979 to By 1980

    To Dwight Reimer, Shafter, CA keeping c/r N7075C.

    Markings Applied: My Assam Dragon

    By 1982

    To Gordon Plaskett, King City, CA keeping c/r N7075C.

    1982

    To Stephen Grey, Geneva, Switzerland.
    Was not delivered overseas.

    To Planes of Fame East/Robert J. Pond, Eden Prairie, MN.
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    18 February 1983

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL7075C (TBM-3E, 53785) issued.

    31 July 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    31 July 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Planes of Fame East, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

    December 1997

    To Palm Springs Air Museum/Bob Pond, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N7075C.

    Used in the filming of the movie Smokey and The Bear II.

    29 October 1999

    To Robert J. Pond, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N7075C.

    3 July 2001

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N7075C.

    3 July 2001

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N7075C.

    Operated by Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    Markings Applied: JR456, RP
    Painted as a Royal Navy Avenger Mk III.

    14 April 2012

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N7075C.

    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Palm Springs Air Museum, California

    22 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Painted as US Navy X2. Palm Springs Air Museum, CA, USA.

    22 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Palm Springs Air Museum, CA, USA.

    1 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL7075C (TBM-3E, 53785) issued.

    13 February 2018

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV keeping c/r N7075C.
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
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