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TBM AVENGER/N5635N

Bureau #: ?
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration(s):
  N5635N

Model(s):
  TBM-1C Avenger
Name: None
Status: Wrecked
Last info: 1968

History:
Delivered to the United States Navy as Bu. #####.
Ball-Ralston Flying Service, Hillsboro, OR, Late 1940s to probably mid-1950s

• Registered as N5635N.
• Leased for use by Skyway Air Services in BC 1957 for aerial spraying.
• Skyway logo painted on side.

Parsons Airpark, Inc., Carpenteria, CA - Early 1960s.
Idaho Aircraft Co, Boise, ID, 1963-1970.

• Registered as N5635N.
• Flew as tanker #D3.

Dennis Smilanich, Boise, ID, ????-1968.

• Flew as tanker #D3.
• Crashed in Graham, ID, August 9, 1968.
• The airframe was destroyed.
• Collided with trees while on a low pass.
• Pilot was killed.
• Airframe written off.

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