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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 ...
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.
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
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In 2006, a TBM Avenger aircraft operated by the museum taxied into a homebuilt plane at the 2006 Oshkosh fly in. A passenger in the homebuilt was killed. The NTSB investigation faulted the Avenger pilot. [citation needed] The museum's North American B-25 Mitchell was featured on October 16, 2010 in a flyover of the Virginia Tech football game ...
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.
A U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3W2 Avenger "hunter" aircraft (tail code "SH-13", foreground) and a TBM-3S2 "killer" aircraft ("SH-3") from Anti-Submarine Squadron 26 (VS-26) fly in formation during a routine training flight, circa in 1953.
USS Marcus Island (CVE-77), transporting TDR-1s and associated TBM Avenger control aircraft to South West Pacific theatre (June 1944) In 1944, under the control of the Special Air Task Force (SATFOR), [6] the TDR-1 was deployed operationally to the South Pacific for operations against the Japanese. [7]