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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:91450 USN
    Construction Number:4355
    Last Civil Registration:C-GCWG {1}
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 91450 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 91450.

    From By 1963 to By 1964

    To Riverside Aircraft Co, Riverside, CA with new c/r N7239C.

    From By 1966 to By 1970

    To Aero Union Corp, Chico, CA keeping c/r N7239C.

    Operated as fire service #E64.

    Based at Aero Union Corporation, Chico Municipal Airport, Chico, CA.
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    To Riverside Aircraft, Riverside, CA keeping c/r N7239C.

    1972

    To Yesterdays Air Force, David C. Tallichet, Chino, CA keeping c/r N7239C.

    Placed on display with Yesterdays Air Force/David C. Tallichet, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    29 August 1976


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: This was Ed Maloneys aircraft, freshly painted N7239C at Fresno, California, on August 29, 1976.

    13 September 1976

    To Planes of Fame, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N7239C.

    12 April 1977

    Civil registration, N7239C, cancelled.

    From 1978 to By 1993

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, ON with new c/r C-GCWG {1}.

    Based at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON.
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    Markings Applied: G, VG-ABG, ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY 91450, G
    RCN markings applied.

    1 August 1979


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

    June 1987


    Photographer: Kenneth M. Hare
    Notes: TBM-3E 91450 / C-GCWG 826 Squadron at Hamilton Civic Ap., Ont. June 1987

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.

    13 July 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Oswego Airport NY

    13 July 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Oswego Airport NY

    15 February 1993

    Destroyed.
    Destroyed in a hanger fire.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Bernie Goodman
    Mike Henniger
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