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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3 Avenger
    Last Military Serial:85794 USN
    Construction Number:2613
    Last Civil Registration:N88JZ
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3 sn 85794 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Acv Group Llc, McKinleyville, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3 by General Motors.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85794.

    1945

    Transferred to USS Yorktown (CV-10).
    Flown by LTjg George Bush.

    1957

    To Central Air Service, Lewistown, MT with new c/r N7001C.

    1980

    To Gordon B. Plaskett, King City, CA keeping c/r N7001C.
    Restored to military configuration with turrets and guns.

    1983

    To Alan Clark/Flytex Inc, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N7001C.

    1986

    To Alan Clark/Fighting Air Command, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N7001C.

    From 1988 to 1992

    To Coke V. Stuart, Valdosta, GA keeping c/r N7001C.

    Circa 1988


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.
    Notes: Photographed at Madera, CA.

    By 2 August 1988

    Markings Applied: 25, 125, 125, RR

    January 1989

    Towed down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC, during inauguration parade of President George Bush.

    Circa July 1989


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.
    Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh.

    By 10 March 1990

    Markings Applied: 2, 2, X

    10 March 1990


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: N7001C Bu.85794 X-2 TBM-3E Avenger at Tico 10-3-90. From a scan.

    22 April 1993

    To Richard D. Ervin, Indianapolis, IN keeping c/r N7001C.

    By 1993

    Markings Applied: 125, 125, 125, RR
    In the three-tone c/s and markings of VT-88, USS Yorktown.

    By 1993


    Photographer: Corel Photo CD-ROM 1993

    5 November 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Cecil Field Airshow

    7 April 1997


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun Fly-In, Lakeland FL

    25 September 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL7001C (TBM-3, 85794) issued.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Arizona Wing, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    26 September 1998

    To William F. Hill, Houston, TX keeping c/r N7001C.

    8 November 2003

    To Hans O. Lauridsen, Carefree, AZ keeping c/r N7001C.

    Based at Lauridsen Aviation Museum, Buckeye Municipal Airport, Buckeye, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: RR-125

    29 October 2005


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Notes: Glendale Muni, AZ (GEU) air show

    By April 2007

    Parked at Buckeye AZ pending a new museum site.

    8 February 2014


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy

    25 November 2015

    To Hans O. Lauridsen, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N7001C.

    24 April 2019

    To Hans O. Lauridsen, Cave Creek, AZ keeping c/r N7001C.

    12 February 2022

    To Acv Group Llc, McKinleyville, CA keeping c/r N7001C.

    4 August 2022

    To Acv Group Llc, McKinleyville, CA with new c/r N88JZ.
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