Thanks to one of our CAFFL Website visitors (Barrie MacLeod) we now know some history of our TBM.  We encourage anyone else with history or picture to send them to Carl@CAFFL.org and we will post them on our site!

Fredericton June 26th 1980
 

The aircraft started out with the United States Navy. (The CAF is currently looking for that record)

It served with the Royal Canadian Navy at Naval Air Station Shearwater here in Halifax where I live and I watched the NAVY Avengers flying over the harbor when I was out sailing in the 1950s.

Its side number in the R.C.N. was 381

It was taken on with the R.C.N. 23 June 1952 and struck off strength 17 January 1958

The Canadian Navy sold it to Skyway Air Services Ltd. in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
They sprayed budworm in New Brunswick in the spring and fought forest fires in British Columbia in the summer.
That is all the way across the country as in California to Maine.

In 1969 the Avengers were sold to a new company, Conair, at Abbotsford, B.C.

Eventually Forest Protection in Fredericton, New Brunswick bought their own aircraft and IMK came there.

Sold 1994 (?) to dealer Vintage Wings

If I see anything on it as 381 in the navy I will send it along.

Barrie MacLeod

Fredericton May 23rd  1970

Thanks to one of our CAFFL Website visitors (Barrie MacLeod) we now know some history of our TBM.  We encourage anyone else with history or picture to send them to Carl@CAFFL.org and we will post them on our site!