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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:Avenger AS.3
    Last Military Serial:53139 RCN
    Construction Number:3201
    Last Civil Registration:N6VC
    Compressed ID:Fairey Aviation Avenger AS.3 sn 531...
    Latest Owner or Location:Greatest Generation Naval Museum, Colorado Springs, CO

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3 by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53139.

    27 September 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 53139 as a Avenger AS.3.

    Transferred to VU 32 Squadron.

    30 January 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    1958

    To Crown Assets Distribution Centre.

    From 1958 to By 1969

    To Skyway Air Services, Langley, BC with new c/r CF-IMN.

    1958

    Conversion to a fire tanker.

    Operated as fire service #605.

    From 1969 to By 1977

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford BC keeping c/r CF-IMN.

    Operated as fire service #605.

    August 1977

    To Forrest Protection Limited with new c/r C-FIMN.
    Purchased for $20,000.

    From 1977 to By 1994

    To Forest Protection Ltd, Fredericton, NB.

    Operated as fire service #605.

    Operated as fire service #5.

    July 1988


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: CF-IMN - TBM-3 Avenger - Forest Protection at Fredericton in July 1988

    From By 1990 to By 1995

    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage at Fredericton.

    July 1994

    To Vintage Wings/Jeff Thomas, Seattle, WA.

    July 1994

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Fredericton to Seattle.

    14 July 1994

    Civil registration, C-FIMN, cancelled.

    From 28 February 1995 to By 1998

    To Ozark Management Inc, Rolla, MO with new c/r N6VC.

    To Vintage Wings, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N6VC.

    11 July 1998

    To Wes Stricker, Rolla, MO keeping c/r N6VC.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 85715, 15
    Restored to a military configuration.

    11 July 1998

    To Strickerwes, Rolla, MO keeping c/r N6VC.

    To Columbia Regional Airport, Columbia, MO.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 15

    By 2006

    Based at Tennessee Museum of Aviation, Sevierville, TN.
    View the Location Dossier

    8 November 2010

    To Pissed Away N6VC Llc, Bellevue, WA keeping c/r N6VC.

    14 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Chino Airshow commemorating 100 years of Naval Aviation, Chino, CA.

    17 May 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL6VC (TBM-3, 53139) issued.

    6 May 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: 2012 Chino Airshow

    11 January 2013

    To Greatest Generation Naval Museum, San Diego, CA keeping c/r N6VC.

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow, San Diego, California

    2 June 2013


    Photographer: Tazerman
    Notes: On display at Wings Over Gillespie Air Show

    5 January 2016

    To Greatest Generation Naval Museum, Carlsbad, CA keeping c/r N6VC.

    3 January 2018

    To Greatest Generation Naval Museum, Colorado Springs, CO keeping c/r N6VC.
    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
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    Transport Canada
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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