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TBM AVENGER/Bu. 85833
Grumman Avenger 85833

Bureau #: 85833
Construction #: 2652
Civil Registration(s):
  CF-IMO
Model(s):
  TBM-3S Avenger
  Avenger AS Mk. 3 Avenger
Name: None
Status: Crashed
Last info: 1970
History:
Delivered to United States Navy as Bu. 85833, 1960.
Delivered to Royal Canadian Navy as 85833.
Forest Patrol Ltd, St John, NB, 1965-1970.
  • Registered as CF-IMO.
  • Crashed near Black Brook Depot, NB, south of Boston Brook airstrip, July 6, 1970.
    • Pilot Gene Myers.
    • Cause of crash was a power loss on takeoff.
    • CF-IMO was buried at the crash site.
Grumman Avenger 85833
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.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-5th Edition, 2008.
Federal Aviation Administration.
Photo Source(s):
Barrie MacLeod
Canadian forest Service
Research Assistance:
Christopher Adam
Barrie MacLeod
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