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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3R Avenger
    Last Military Serial:86123 USN
    Construction Number:2942
    Last Civil Registration:NL6831C
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3R sn 86123 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid-America Air Museum, Liberal Municipal Airport, Liberal, Kansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Circa April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 86123.

    Circa 1948

    Converted to a TBM-3R by General Motors.

    To unknown owner with c/r N711YY.

    From 1962 to 1963

    To Charlie T. Jensen, Sacramento, CA keeping c/r N6831C.

    1962

    Converted to fire-fighting tanker.

    1962

    Operated as fire service #E22.

    From 1963 to 1977

    To Charlie T. Jensen/Nevadair, Tonopah, NV keeping c/r N6831C.

    5 June 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL6831C (TBM-3R 86123) issued.

    From 1979 to 1983

    To Richard J. Dieter amp; Ray Stutsman, South Bend, IN keeping c/r N6831C.

    1979

    Restored.

    1979

    Markings Applied: 123, RB 123, NAVY, 86123, B

    July 1979


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Lewis-Lockport Airport (KLOT), Romeoville, IL. Now called Lewis University Airport.

    1 August 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Oshkosh WI of a Grumman TBM-3R Avenger

    6 September 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    1984

    To Tom A. Thomas, Oklahoma City, OK keeping c/r N6831C.

    11 July 1984

    To Ada Aircraft Museum Inc, Oklahoma City, OK keeping c/r N6831C.

    From 1988 to 2010

    Based at Mid-America Air Museum, Liberal Municipal Airport, Liberal, KS.
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    By 1993


    Photographer: Corel Photo CD-ROM 1993

    30 January 1998

    To unknown owner with c/r NL6831C.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Liberal, KS.

    15 June 1999


    Photographer: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT
    Notes: Picture of N6831C on Hanger Deck of USS Hornet

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Mid-America Air Museum

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Mid-America Air Museum
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Chris Givan
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