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Bureau #: 53492
Construction #: 3554
Civil Registration(s):
  N9083Z
Model: TBM-3
Name: None
Status: Crashed
Last info: 1973
   History:
Riverside Aircraft Co, Riverside, CA, 1962-1964.
- Registered as N9083Z.
- Flew as tanker #E63.
Aero Union Corp, Chico, CA, 1966-1972.
- Flew as tanker #E28.
- Damaged during wheels up landing (repaired, Red Bluff, CA, Nov. 7, 1967.
- Crashed and destroyed after colliding with USFS Cessna 310 during fire bombing run, near Chester, CA, Aug. 2, 1973.
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.