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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3S Avenger
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3S
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3S by General Motors.

    Markings Applied: 8

    Circa August 1972


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver


    Photographer: Phil Branagan


    Photographer: Phil Branagan

    By 1975

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
    Steve Tournay comments: Walt reportedly got this at auction at Rising Sun, Maryland.
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    1982


    Photographer: Michael Jones

    Circa 1991


    Photographer: Jayson Shenk

    1991

    Last spotted in the Soplata collection.

    25 October 1993


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
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