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TBM AVENGER/Bu. 86180
Grumman Avenger Bu. 86180

Bureau #: 86180
Construction #: 2999
Civil Registration(s):
  CF-MUD
Model(s):
  TBM-3S Avenger
  AS Mk. 3 Avenger
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2019
History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian Navy as 86180.
  • BOC:October 19, 1950.
  • SOC: July 5, 1960.
Skyway Air Services, Langley, BC, 1961-1965.
  • Registered as CF-MUD.
  • Flew as tanker #612.
Convair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC, 1969-1977.
  • Flew as tanker #612.
  • Ditched while spraying, Lake Nigault, Quebec, June 11, 1971.
Forest Protection Ltd, Fredericton, NB, October 1977-2002.
  • Flown as tanker #12.
  • WFU and stored, Fredericton, 1994-1995.
Reported sold to owner in USA, May 6, 2002.
Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation museum, Cape May Airport, Rio Grande, NJ, ????-2019.
Grumman Avenger Bu. 86180
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.
Photo Source(s):
John Stewart via Christopher Adam
Daniel L. Berek

Research Assistance:
Christopher Adam
Daniel L. Berek
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