Goto Warbirds Resource Group Main Page Back to main registry
Send us comments Back to main index of current aircraft type
Search this site Warbirds Information Exchange Discussion Group
back to Avenger Main Directory



Bureau #: 47859
Construction #: 5625
Civil Registration(s):
  ZK-CBO
Model: TBF-1C
Name: None
Status: Static Display
Last info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to RNZAF as NZ2527.
- BOC: Jan. 1944.
- SOC: 1959.
Bennett Aviation Ltd, Te Kuiti, Dec. 1959.
Barr Brothers Ltd, Ardmore, Auckland, Mar. 18, 1962-1963.
- Registered as ZK-CBO.
- Conversion to sprayer started but abandoned, WFU, Mar. 1964.
Reported in playground, Kuirau Park, Rotorua, Oct. 1964-1969. Museum Of Transport & Technology, Auckland, 1974-2002.
- Loaned to Confederate Air Force (NZ Wing), Auckland-Dairy Flat, 1981-1995.
-- Displayed.
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.