TBM AVENGER/Bu. 53420
Bureau #: 53420
Construction #: 3482
Civil Registration(s):
CF-KCM
C-FKCM
N420GP
Construction #: 3482
Civil Registration(s):
CF-KCM
C-FKCM
N420GP
Model(s):
TBM-3S Avenger
AS Mk. 3M Avenger
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2019
TBM-3S Avenger
AS Mk. 3M Avenger
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2019
History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian Navy as 53420.
Vintage Wings, Seattle, WA, February 11, 1994-2000.
Tri-State Warbird Museum, Batavia, OH, 2004-2019.
Delivered to Royal Canadian Navy as 53420.
- BOC: October 19, 1950.
- SOC: July 5, 1960.
- Assigned to Squadron VS 880.
- Transferred to VX 10.
- Transferred to VU 32, CFB Shearwater, NS.
- Registered as CF-KCM.
- Tanker #616.
- Flew as tanker #616.
- Registered as C-FKCM.
- Flown as tanker #16.
- Crashed on take-off, Boston Brook, NB, June 8, 1981.
- Stored, 1990-1994.
Vintage Wings, Seattle, WA, February 11, 1994-2000.
- Registered as N420GP.
- Arrived dismantled by truck, July 1994.
Tri-State Warbird Museum, Batavia, OH, 2004-2019.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2006.
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2006.
Photo Source(s):
Mark Silvestri.
Christopher Adam.
Mark Silvestri.
Christopher Adam.
