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Bureau #: 23602
Construction #: 5746
Civil Registration(s):
  None
Model: TBM-3
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 1990
   History:
NAS Mustim Field, Philadelphia, PA, 1947-1975.
- Stored.
USNAM, Philadephia, PA, 1976.
- Displayed on USS Intrepid.
Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT, Sept. 18, 1976-1979.
- Badly damaged by Tornado, Oct. 3, 1979.
New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT, 1989-1990.
- Restoration for static display.
- Restoration using parts from BuNo: 53100 & 53527, recovered from burial site at NALF Charleston, RI by NEAM.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
None.