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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3 Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53858 USN
    Construction Number:3920
    Last Civil Registration:C-GCWG {2}
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3 sn 53858 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, ON

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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 53858.

    Transferred to VT-5.

    Transferred to VA-6A.

    Transferred to VA-55.

    From By 1963 to By 1973

    To Hemet Valley Flying Service, Hemet, CA with new c/r N3357G.

    Operated as fire service #E72.

    Operated as fire service #72.

    February 1972


    Photographer: Jay Sherlock
    Notes: At Hemet

    17 April 1975

    To Hillcrest Aircraft Co Inc, Lewiston, ID keeping c/r N3357G.

    March 1976

    To Forrest Protection Limited with new c/r C-GFPR.
    $35,520 average price.

    13 April 1976

    Civil registration, N3357G, cancelled.

    From May 1976 to By 2002

    Based at Forest Protection Limited, Fredericton Airport, Fredericton, NB.
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    Operated as fire service #72.

    9 May 1977

    Assigned civil registration: C-GFPR (TBM-3E, 53858)

    Operated as fire service #4.

    From By 1991 to By 2000

    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage at Fredericton, NB.

    19 October 2000

    Civil registration, C-GFPR, cancelled.

    From November 2000 to Circa 2007

    To Association Mecaniciens-Pilotes Des/Didier Chable with new c/r F-WQON.
    Did not leave Fredericton. The civil registration was applied and it was placed in storage in Fredericton.

    By 2007

    Offered for sale.

    27 July 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Fading Forest Protection c/s and French reg at Fredericton

    From Circa October 2009 to 21 October 2009

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON.
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    October 2009

    Restoration started.
    Will be restored and flown as an Avenger AS3 Mk 1 (early) as flown by the Royal Canadian Navy in the 1950s.

    21 October 2009


    Photographer: Canadian Warplane Heritage.
    Notes: First engine run, the day of the arrival at the CWH. Disassembly and restoration to follow.

    6 December 2009


    Photographer: Jim Bates
    Notes: Paint stripping has just begun.

    Civil registration C-GCWG {2} reserved.

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Show hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    12 October 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Hamilton, Ontario

    16 June 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    3 June 2014

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, ON with new c/r C-GCWG {2}.

    20 October 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    20 October 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    10 July 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Canadian Warplain Heritage Museum.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    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
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    Transport Canada
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Jim Bates
    Mike Henniger
    Rob Thompson

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