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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:91398 USN
    Construction Number:4303
    Last Civil Registration:N3251G
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 91398 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Johnson Flying Service Inc, Missoula, MT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    By 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 91398 and operated with these markings: 156.

    1948


    Photographer: TBM / Forestry Protection Files
    Notes: US Navy Avenger 156 at the Naval Air Reserve (NAR) New York

    From 16 September 1959 to 1970

    To Johnson Flying Service Inc, Missoula, MT with new c/r N3251G (TBM-3, 91398).

    Operated as fire service #A15.

    May 1970

    Crashed.
    Crashed on takeoff at Dunphy, NB, on the right side of the takeoff runway. Pilot Bob Graves was unhurt, but the aircraft was destroyed and burned. The cause was heavy frost on the right wing (left wing was OK).

    May 1970


    Photographer: TBM / Forestry Protection Files
    Notes: at crash site, Dunphy,MB

    31 December 1978

    Civil registration, N3251G, cancelled.
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    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
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     Terry Fletcher
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