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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBF-1 Avenger
    Last Military Serial:01747 USN
    Construction Number:2781
    Compressed ID:Grumman TBF-1 sn 01747 USN cn 2781
    Latest Owner or Location:Deland Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand NAS, DeLand, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBF-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 01747.

    11 June 1943

    Crashed.
    Ditched in Lake Michigan off USS Wolverine.

    1991

    Recovered.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    The airframe may not have been moved to Pensacola.
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    Sent to Herlong Airport, Jacksonville, FL, for restoration but the project did not come to fruition.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: This was taken at Herlong Airport in Jacksonville Florida March of 1993.Note:Plane is in original state and color scheme as when recovered from Lake Michigan in the 1990s. The photo was taken shortly after it is recovery I am guessing.Also note early era star insignia.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Robert Abbott

    Returned from loan to National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States.
    Returned to the museum.

    By 2008

    Loaned to Deland Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand NAS, DeLand, FL.
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    16 February 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Deland NAS Museum in Deland, FL.

    16 February 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Deland NAS Museum in Deland, FL.

    16 February 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Deland NAS Museum in Deland, FL.

    4 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Deland Naval Air Station Museum
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Abbott
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