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The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM [1] for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.
A Fairey Swordfish carrying a dummy torpedo. A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes.Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the First World War almost as soon as aircraft were built that were capable of carrying the weight of a torpedo, and remained an important aircraft type until they were rendered obsolete by anti-ship missiles.
This is a list of torpedo bomber aircraft, designed or adapted to carry a primary weapon load of one or more aerial torpedoes in an anti-shipping role. It does not include types equipped for the more general anti-submarine warfare (ASW) role.
The Douglas TBD Devastator was an American torpedo bomber of the United States Navy.Ordered in 1934, it first flew in 1935 and entered service in 1937. At that point, it was the most advanced aircraft flying for the Navy, being the first metal monoplane in the United States Navy; [1] however, by the time of the US entry into World War 2, the TBD was already outdated.
Douglas BTD Destroyer torpedo bomber/dive bomber: 1943: retired 1945: 30: Douglas XTB2D Skypirate torpedo bomber: 1945: retired prototype: 2: Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber: 1941: retired 1966: 9,839: Grumman AF Guardian anti-submarine aircraft: 1945: retired 1955: 389 [notes 3] Grumman XTB2F torpedo bomber: n/a: abandoned 1944 project: 0: Hall ...
General Motors TBM-3E Avenger No. 86180 is a surviving TBM Avenger torpedo bomber located at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The plane, a variant of the Grumman-designed Avenger, was built by General Motors in 1945.
Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Fairey Barracuda An all metal monoplane torpedo-bomber/dive bomber, the Barracude was the last British torpedo bomber to enter service during the war, serving from January 1943. Grumman Avenger. This aircraft came into service by the FAA in November 1943. Was originally called Tarpon but was changed to Avenger when the FAA changed to using the ...