Some Canadian civil TBM-3E Avengers in the Maritimes.

                                                    

                                                              

 

CF-KCF  53554  RCN                  Skyways 614/ Conair Crash Winfield, B.C. 8 Aug.71

CF-KCG 69327  RCN 326             Skyways/Conair 615

  It is another one painted as the X 2 Bush a/c.      Imperial War Museum, Duxford

                            (Had been substantially damaged at Sussex 29 May 1976.)

CF-KCH  53072  RCN 311          Skyways/Conair 606    w/o Boston Brook 6 June 1974

CF-KCJ   53559   RCN 387              Skyways 607  Crash Sumas, WA  7 May 1969

CF-KCK  53392  RCN TF*G/306   Skyways 608 crash Castlegar, B.C. in 1967

                                                                          (Warbird Registry says 1969?)

CF-KCL   53638  RCN        FPL 9       Skyways/Conair   29 May 1978 struck water, sank              

                    Fresh water of Oromocto lake.  Because in 2006 it is  N109K in Reading, Pa.

 3 tone fuselage, a 4 & blue diamond on white rectangle on tail Mid Atlantic Air Museum

CF-KCM 53420 RCN AB*G /343/388     FPL 16     Skyways/Conair/FPL 

                                             Warbird N420GP in 2005 tri-State Warbird Museum, Ohio

CF-KCN 53732 RCN ABH/316                Skyways/Conair 617

                                                                             Crash Angus Home Lk., B.C. 27 Aug.72

 

CF-IMI    53337  RCN 390/805  FPL 1  Skyways 601/Conair/FPL  

                                                                      Warbird NL337GA in 2003

                         Blue with yellow cowl. ↑ on tail.              In 2007 is VH-VTB in Australia

CF-IMJ  85870  RCN 372                       Skyways 602 Crashed N.B. 1969

 

CF-IMK  85597  RCN 381  FPL 2  Skyways/Conair 602/FPL  Being rebuilt in 2007 by

                                                                            Commerative A.F.  Florida Wing, Deland

                                                                   It had been stored in Midland, Tx. As N704QZ 

                                                                    Deleated from Canadian Register in July 1994

CF-IML  53507   RCN 368             Skyways 603       Crash Harrison Lake , B.C.  in 1961

CF-IMM  53241  RCN AB*J/307  Skyways 604/Conair    w/o Sussex 14 May 1973

CF-IMN   53139  RCN 318  FPL 5     Skyways/Conair 605/FPL 

                                                                                        N6VC, Wes Stricker,    Rolla, Mo.

CF-IMO   85833  RCN 364                Irving Oil               Crash Boston Brook 6 July 1970

CF-IMQ  53558   RCN             

CF-IMR  53610    RCN  AB*C/303   FPL 23         Wheeler/Evergreen 01/FPL

CF-IMS  53759 RCN  308  Wheeler Airlines  Crash, ferry flight, 21 June 1960 in Quebec

CF-IMT  69347 RCN 804  Wheeler-Northland, destroyed on T/O St.Jovite, PQ 2 May 63

CF-IMU  69354  RCN 367/347           Skyways

CF-IMV  85665  RCN BD*F/ABB/322       Wheeler-Northland 05 / Evergreen/FPL

                                (Bellied in once with VS-880.)              Crash 9 June 77 Blissville

CF-IMW  85928 RCN 338 Wheeler-Northland/Evergreen  Crash into trees & destroyed    

                                                                                              10 June 1975 Chipman, N.B.

CF-IMX   86098 RCN 366   Wheeler-Northland/Evergreen     w/o 7 June 1974 Sevogle

CF-AYG   53829                  was N9591C/Norfolk Aerial/Hicks & Lawrence B-20

                                              Now warbird with Gerald Beck as N293E in Wahpeton, ND

CF-AYL   86091  N9307Z  E 82      Norfolk   silver with red cowl – photo Sevogle Times  

                                           Also in 1970 N.B. pilot list.        w/o 17 June 1973 at Juniper

CF-AXS  53209   N7960C                 Norfolk Aerial Spraying # B-17 of Simcoe

                                                              Into trees, destroyed, 10 SW Sevogle 15 June 1979

CF-AGL   53784 N9590C  D 1  Boise                   fatal w/o Lac des Loup 9 June 1972

CF-AGN  86244   N6826C  C 53  Conair 607/FPL 7              burn 4 July 84, Charlo

        Some question as it is on the 83 and NOT on the 84 list.  Sevogle story says 84 prop loss.

CF-BEF   53078  RCN 420/386   was JJC, N68683  A-25       

                                        Miramichi Air Services   Crashed on Juniper Strip 20 May 1975

                                                  Buried on site. ACAM newsletter May/June 2002

CF-BEG   85983 RCN 374    N4039A Sevogle photo  Miramichi/Hicks&Lawrence

                                                                                  Now warbird N28SF in Calif. in 2006.

CF-BQS  53914 N7029C  D 16 H&L  Crash Maine 19 May 72  Recovered 1991

                                                                                     Quonset Air Museum, Rhode Island

CF-BQT   91171  N107Z One of the first 8 California converted Avengers!!!

           N7858C  D 17               Hicks&Lawrence      In 1976 to Ag Air.

          In 2007 it is still listed on the Canadian Civil Register  –  Ag Air, Baytree, Alberta

 

CF-JJB  86175  RCN      Richel Air Ltd., St. Johns, Quebec in 1961

                                        Became N68684    crash 16 Oct.1967

CF-JJC   53078  RCN     Richel Air became N68683 21 May 1970 and then by 1973 was    

                                                      CF-BEF & crashed at Juniper 20 May 1975

CF-KPJ   53334  RCN     AIRSPRAY in Wetaskiwin in 1961 > Klamath Aircraft, Oregon

                                          as N68663 (Watch this & the above ident!!) Sis-Q E 28 & E 25

                                           then to C-GLEG  destroyed 5 July 1975.

CF-KYA   85652 RCN  AIRSPRAY # 701 Crashed near YFC in 1960.

                                 (FPL photo via Chris Adams)

CF-MSX  53496  RCN  AB*S/339 Skyways 610 Crash Harrison Lake ,B.C. 7 July 61

CF-MSY  53670  RCN  306  Skyways 611  Crash Smithers, B.C.  64/65.

CF-MXN  53632  RCN 309/307  FPL 19 Skyways/Conair 619

                                                                       Crash Moyie Lake, B.C. 18 August 1973

CF-MUD  86180  RCN 324 FPL 12 Skyways/Conair 612/FPL Now a museum aircraft at

             AB* A  BD*G      USN Air Station Wildwood Museum, Rio Grande, New Jersey

CF-MUE  91426   RCN 303/908         FPL 18               Skyways/Conair/FPL

                                                 N40402 in Maryland in 2004 in FPL colors.

         Gone to American Airpower Heritage Flying,  the CAF Museum in Midland, Texas

CF-XOM  69325         USN/N104Z/McEwan’s of Moncton/Hicks&Lawrence

                                                 Warbird N325GT  Olympic Flt. Museum, Olympia, Wash.

                This Avenger is for sale in March 2007 on the Courtesy Aircraft site.

CF-XON  85829   RCN 907   N6584D    McEwan’s/Hicks&Lawrence

                                                                                                     w/o Juniper 21 May 1974

CF-XOO  53488  RCN AB*H/312                              McEwans(Maritime Air Services),  

                                                                                     crash & burn, Nfld. 13 July 1969

CF-ZTA 53351          was N7411C  716 yellow    Miramichi Air Services    

                                                                                    Fatal crash 21 July 74, Sevogle, N.B.

                                 Forest spraying, in turn at end of run, a/c struck ground & destroyed.

CF-ZTR 53775  N7028C    D 7                          Orange & white in Sevogle Times   

                                                     Miramichi Air Services          w/o Sevogle 16 June 1972

CF-ZTS    -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - Miramichi              crash photo in Sevogle Times album

                                                                     (Was it A 18, also crash photo ?)

CF-ZYB  53256   N9592C   D 19  H & L    crash  1 June 1971

CF-ZYC  53607  U.S.N. 8 June 1945     45 > 63  TBM-3U

                      In 1963 to U.S.N. storage at Litchfield Park, Arizona –just west of Phoenix.

                      In 1963 to Cisco Aircraft Inc., Lancaster, Calif. as N8398H

                      1966 to 1969   D 20  with Aerial Applicators, Utah       

   May 1971 to  Hicks & Lawrence in Ontario as CF-ZYC.    Crash Juniper 20 May 1975.

                                           Rebuilt in 1990s & at Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum

                         Painted as fictitious C-GFPL   FPL Tanker 24   Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

 

 C-GCWG             painted as 91450 RCN AB*G   Canadian Warplane Heritage - lost in their fire in 93

                                       Civil Aviation Register showed serial # 7340 and not the Bureau #

                                        It was at the 1985 Shearwater International Airshow.

 

C-GFPL   86020  RCN 327  FPL 22     N7157C   63     Evergreen/FPL

                                     TF*C 

C-GFPM  53857                   FPL 21     N7017C           Evergreen/FPL

                           In 2006 to be painted as WW II a/c. & registered VH-MML in Australia.

C-GFPN   91289                   FPL 17    Evergreen/FPL            w/o Brockway 1 May 1999

           was N7833C  E 56 then E 74  with Hemet Valley, Calif.

C-GFPO   86064    N7161C   E 97 then C 97   FPL 19        Evergreen/FPL

                                                                    destroyed into woods 22 May 83 Sevogle                                                                         

C-GFPP   86090  N9434Z  52 H.V.     Evergreen  w/o 17 July 1977  Charlo

C-GFPQ  53592   N5168V E 68 H.V. Evergreen/FPL 

                                                               8 June 1982  fatal crash, 25 N of Boston Brook

C-GFPR  53858  N3357G  E 72  H.V.      FPL 4      Evergreen/FPL 

                                                                                                 2002 to France as F-WQDN

C-GFPS  85460  RCN 346    FPL 3    N7032C/Evergreen/Conair/FPL

                                                                                         In U.S. in Nov. 2005 as N145WB

                                                                                                 Few TBMs LLC, N.J.

C-GFPT   53787  N3969A  A 21 Johnson  FPL 10      Evergreen/FPL

C-GLDX  53768  N103Z One of the first!!  N10361  B 18  Norfolk/Hicks&Lawrence

                                 warbird N683G metallic blue with red&white rudder, # 63 on side

                                                                                                 Thomas Buck, Joliet, Illinois

C-GLEF   85715 was N1369N E 36  TBM Inc.   Then E 27 with Sis-Q

          Evergreen/FPL 8  Trucked to Seattle.  Warbird N65VC  Wes Stricker, Rolla, Mo.

C-GLEG  53334  RCN  ABB/349  CF-KPJ Airspray, Wetaskiwin

                N68663 in Oregon and then Sis-Q  E 25  Sprayed in New Brunswick

                                 Then Evergreen      T/O empty tank?  Destroyed Blackville 4 July 75 

 C-GLEH  53697  RCN 301/909    FPL 20   N9711Z E-33 Sis-Q/Evergreen/FPL

                                       Fatal crash Boston Brook  6 June 1987, pilot Paul Garon of Truro

C-GLEI 53307  N9078Z  E 98  E 26 Evergreen (substantial damage Blackville 8 May 75)

C-GLEJ    69323                FPL 24  N7961C  E 92   E-24    Evergreen/FPL        

                                                    warbird N124TB          Andrew Donohue, Argyle, Texas

C-GLEK   85733       FPL 14  was N6824C  A-12 Johnson    Evergreen

             w/o Chatham 16 Aug. 1998  With other parts is Boisetown Woodsman Museum

C-GLEL  53200  RCN 377  FPL 13 N9010C A-13 Johnson   Evergreen/FPL 13

C-GLEM  85499 N9597C A-6 Johnson       Evergreen        w/o Chipman 28 May 1979

C-GLEN   91159  N3249G  A 14  Johnson  Evergreen    into trees 21 June 1978  Sevogle

               Flew in N.B. in 1970 as N3249G

C-GLEP   85836               FPL 11    U.S.N. North Island/ N7014C  A-11 with Johnson                 

                                                         Flying Service, Missoula, Montana/  Evergreen/FPL

                                                   Out of Brockway strip 10 June 1984 into trees, destroyed.

C-GLEQ  85854          was N7015C  A-7       Evergreen         w/o Dunphy 23 June 1977

 

C-GOBJ   85632 N7002C  /Norfolk/Hicks&Lawrence B-15               warbird N81865

                                                                                                   Fargo Air Museum, ND

C-GOBK  69531 N179Z  N17930 Norfolk Aerial Spraying, destroyed 30 May 78, Minto

C-GOBT     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -           4 June 1974  (Substantial damage) at Chatham

                                                                  No one hurt – forest spray run – engine failed

                                        Pilot made successful wheels-up in field     Failed exhaust valve.

C-GOEG  69361   N9596C   E 19   Norfolk/Hicks&Lawrence B-16/

                                                                             Reynolds Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta

U.S. Avengers flew up (over ?) to Canada each spring for the budworm operation and returned to the U.S.A. when it was over.

They came from  - Boise, Idaho

                            - Missoula, Montana

                            - Yakima, Washington  etc.,etc.

 

A.  Some Barrie logged in Fredericton Control Tower  -

     

      21 May 1970

 

       N68683      orange & white A 25     by 1973 it was CF-BEF 

       N7031C   - fatal crash & burn St. Martin, N.B. as 31C on 21 June 1970

       N7032C  85460  RCN  later to be C-GFPS

 

       25 May 1970

   

        N3249G   91159  A 14  Johnson   later sold into Canada as C-GLEN

        N3251G   91398  A 15  Johnson Flying Service, Missoula, Montana

        N7014C  A 11  later sold into Canada as C-GLEP

        N9597C  D 6    later sold into Canada as C-GLEM

 

 

B.  Crash report.

 

         N7922A   (Substantial damage near Chipman, N.B.    5 June 1966

 

C.  photo album in Sevogle Times site.

 

          N68663  53334   RCN    E 28 silver with red cowl.      Later C-GLEG

          N9590Z   25   red & white   91733  Clarke Hill, trustee, Wentworth, N.H. in 2006

          N41_ _ _     ?

 

D.   1982 Sevogle Times pilot list

 

          N9433Z  91586  now with Friends For Long Island Heritage, Muttontown. L.I.

          N6827C  91110 U.S. Reg. cancelled in 1992 . > New Zealand. Now VH-TBM

                                                                               Flying Fighters, Brisbane, Australia

          N6447C  53575   now Jack Erickson, Washington

          N3967A  53835   2007 Skarda Flying Service,  Arkansas sold to Bob Russell, AZ

          N8397H  69459   current US Civ. Av. Register says problem with registration

                                                          John MacGuire, New Mexico