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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:86020 RCN
    Construction Number:2839
    Last Civil Registration:C-GFPL
    Compressed ID:Fairey Aviation Avenger AS.3 sn 860...
    Latest Owner or Location:Forest Protection Limited, Lincoln, 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 86020.

    5 October 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 86020 as a Avenger AS.3 and operated with these markings: 327.

    Transferred to VU 33.
    Operated with markings: 327

    22 April 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    1 February 1961

    To Donald A Goodman, Missoula, MT with new c/r N7157C.

    Operated as fire service #63.

    By June 1967

    Operated as fire service #A22.

    11 June 1967


    Photographer: J.A.Morrow
    Notes: At Missoula

    14 August 1967

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number SEA68D0107: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 16:34 hours. The damage was substantial. Incident occurred at the Coeur D Alene Airport, Coeur D Alene, ID. The gear retracted during the landing rollout.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    December 1975

    To Forrest Protection Limited with new c/r C-GFPL.
    Purchased for $18,866.

    26 February 1976

    Civil registration, N7157C, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    Operated as fire service #E22.

    Operated as fire service #22.

    7 November 1996

    To Forest Protection Limited, Lincoln, NB keeping c/r C-GFPL.

    17 July 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: As Firefighter 22 at Miramichi / New Brunswick

    23 April 2010

    Crashed.
    Crashed on take-off from the Miramichi airport. The pilot, Ron Clowes, perished in the crash.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Canadian Military Aircraft - Serials and Photographs by J. A. Griffin
    Canadian Warplanes by Harold A. Skaarup
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    Transport Canada
    Transportation Safety Board
    Transportation Safety Board by Government of Canada
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Chris Adam
    Terry Fletcher
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