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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:69472 USN
    Construction Number:2211
    Last Civil Registration:N9593C
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 69472 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    14 February 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 69472.

    From By 1963 to By 1964

    To Frontier Airways, Visalia, CA with new c/r N9593C.

    By 1963

    Operated by Clayton V. Curtis, Boise, ID.

    Operated as fire service #D5.

    By 1966

    To Loening Air Inc, Boise, ID.

    From By 1969 to By 1970

    To Clayton V. Curtis, Boise, ID.

    Operated as fire service #05.

    By 1972

    To D D Aero Spray/Bill Dempsay, Rantoul, KS.

    3 May 1976

    To James R. Levrett, Yuma, AZ keeping c/r N9593C.

    By 1977

    To James R. Levrett, Yuma, AZ keeping c/r N9593C.

    By 1983

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air Museum, AZ

    4 March 1991

    Civil registration, N9593C, cancelled.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1994


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Scanned slide.

    Markings Applied: 301, 69472
    Displayed in the markings of VT-1 (Navy Torpedo Squadron 1) on the USS Essex CV-9 circa 1944.

    14 December 2010


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    19 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: With new markings 114 in Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 19. October 2017.
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    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
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     American Aviation Historical Society
    American Aviation Historical Society
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
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