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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53209 USN
    Construction Number:3271
    Last Civil Registration:CF-AXS
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 53209 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Norfolk Aerial Spraying, Fredericton, NB

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53209.

    1963

    To Major Oil Corporation with new c/r N7960C.

    1963

    To Norman M. Poteet, Tucson, AZ, keeping c/r N7960C.

    1966

    To Sonora Aviation Inc, Tucson, AZ/Carson City, NV, keeping c/r N7960C.
    Markings added: D92

    6 February 1970

    To Barry A. Cooper, Lake Jackson, TX keeping c/r N7960C.

    20 March 1970

    Civil registration, N7960C, cancelled.

    1971

    To Norfolk Aerial Spraying, Fredericton, NB with new c/r CF-AXS.

    Operated as fire service #2.

    Operated as fire service #B2.

    By 1979

    Operated as fire service #B17.

    1979


    Photographer: Jamie Dyer
    Notes: At Dunphy

    15 June 1979

    Crashed.
    Piloted by William Farrell and owned by Norfolk Aerial Spraying Ltd. suffered a complete loss of power and crashed into a wooded area about 4 miles east of the North Branch Mullin Stream in central Northumberland Co. The pilot was not injured but the aircraft was destroyed.
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    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
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