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Bureau #: 53503
Construction #: 3565
Civil Registration(s):
  N6583D
  N53503
Model(s):
  TBM-3S
  AS Mk. 3
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to RCN as 53503.
- BOC: June 30, 1950.
- SOC: Jan. 1, 1958.
Simsbury Flying Service, Simsbury, CT, 1963-1970.
- Registered as N6583D.
Joe E. Jones/Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX, 1970-1972.
Robert L. Wick/CAF, Harlingen, TX, Jan. 13, 1972-1991.
- Registered as N53503.
Commemorative Air Force, Harlingen, TX, Jan. 13, 1972-2002.
- Registered as N53503.
- Flown as USN/82 (later USN/309).


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):
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2003
Caz Caswell.