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TBM AVENGER/Bu. 85886
Grumman Avenger

     

Bureau #: 85886
Construction #:
  2705
Civil Registration(s):
  N9586Z
Model(s):
  TBM-3E Avenger
Name: Yankee Gal
Status: Airworthy (2014)
Last info: 2015
History:
Delivered to the United states Navy as Bu. 85886.
Cisco Aircraft Inc, Lancaster, CA, 1963.
  • Registered as N9586Z.
Loening Air Inc, Boise, ID, 1966.
Hillcrest Aircraft, Lewiston, ID, 1969-1970.
G and M Investments, Lewiston, ID, 1972.
Craig Aero Service, Buttonwillow, CA, 1975-1977.
  • Forced landing, wheels-up, while spraying tomato crop, near Winters, CA, May 23, 1975.
Ralph M. Ponte, Grass Valley, CA, 1978.
Joe Dulvick, 1980-1981.
Jack L. Kelley, Dallas, TX, 1983-1988.
Jeff Clyman/TBF Inc/POB Inc, Tenafly, NJ, 1990-2015.
  • Flies as USN/85886/SL-401/Yankee Gal.
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-6th Edition, 2013.
Federal Aviation Administration.
Photo Source(s):
Caz Caswell.
Steve Tournay, 1996.
Timothy Cox Collection.
Merrill McBride via Chris Adams

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