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Flight 19, a training flight of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers manned by 14 US Navy and Marine personnel from Ft Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida, vanished over the Bermuda Triangle under mysterious circumstances. The Avengers were four TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, FT3; BuNo 46094, FT36; BuNo 46325, FT81 and BuNo 73209, FT117) and TBM-3 ...
A TBF-1 dropping a torpedo TBM-3Ds of VT(N)-90 January 1945 Six U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3E Avenger anti-submarine aircraft of Composite Squadron VC-22 Checkmates flying over the Mediterranean Sea US Navy TBMs (foreground) and SB2C Helldivers drop bombs on Hakodate in July 1945 A TBM-3R COD plane in the early 1950s TBM-3W TBF Avenger Torpedo ...
TBM-3E. 53914 - for static display at Commemorative Air Force (Airbase Arizona) in Mesa, Arizona. [95] 85597 - to airworthiness at Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota. [96] 85715 - in storage by private owner in Holts Summit, Missouri. [97] 91598 - in storage at the Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. [98] TBM-3U
TBM Avenger (5 planes) 14: Fuel starvation (presumed) ... a mining town in the state of Amapá. Contact was lost after the pilot reported losing a cylinder.
Between 1943 and 1946, the U.S. Army Air Forces, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps used NAAS Brown Field for training in various aircraft, including the USAAF Lockheed P-38 Lightning, and the USN and USMC Grumman F4F Wildcat/General Motors FM-1 Wildcat, Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger, Grumman F6F Hellcat, and Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer.
U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3S2 Avenger, BuNo 53439, of Air Anti Submarine Squadron-23, NAS San Diego, California, on night radar bombing training flight strikes Pacific Ocean surface at 110 knots (200 km/h) ~2 1/2 miles W of Point Loma. Both crew survive the accidental ditching, with pilot Lt. Ross C. Genz, USNR, rescued after four hours in a life ...
July 30 – Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture show (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) – The passenger of a Van's Aircraft RV-6 was killed when the propeller of a Grumman TBM-3 Avenger cut into the fuselage of the RV-6. Both aircraft were taxiing for takeoff at the time of the accident. No injuries were reported from the occupants of the Avenger.
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.