Some preserved TBM-3E  aircraft -  Maritime or not.

 

                       Where they are now.

 

01741  USN   An early TBF-1 loaned by Pensacola to NAS Deland Museum, Florida

05997  USN   Yanks Air Museum, Chino

23602  USN  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New England Air Museum, Bradley, Conn.

               Restoration after tornado damage with parts of 53100 and 53527

               from a dig at NALF Charleston, R.I.  !!!!

24085  USN         =     =   =    =    =      National Air & Space Museum, Washington

24336  New Zealand  NZ2504 displayed as NZ2521 Air Force Museum New Zealand

24337 New Zealand NZ2505  loaned to Gisborne Av. Pres. Soc.  2002  New Zealand

24803  USN TBF-1 Might be on USS Intrepid, New York

47859  New Zealand ex-Royal Navy JZ321,   NZ2527, duster ZK-CBO and

                   belongs to museum of Transport & Technology in Auckland, New Zealand

47887  USN  N4169A  63  58  9   Idaho     Avenger Parts Northwest LLC, Oregon  2002

48016  NZ2539 stored Auckland  2002      Ken Jacobs                           New Zealand

53119  RCN 378                                   Wilson Edwards N33BM Big Spring, Texas

53139  RCN 361 CF-IMN  FPL 5                            Wes Stricker, N6VC Rolla, Mo.

53200  RCN 377 N9010C A 13 C-GLEL FPL 13                 Still in 2006 with FPL.

53229  USN  N7236C  loaned to various restaurants in Florida

                                                              now George Bush Presidential Library, Texas

53298  USN  N7956C  Avien Inc., Alabama

53319  USN     -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -    In 2006 HB-RDG Switzerland

            This aircraft was another of the dozen Bush X 2 painted examples

            as N3966A at North Weald in 1990.                 also blue RB 319

                      Later painted as G-BTDP  97>2004 before going HB-RDG to Switzerland.

53337  RCN 390 CF-IMI  FPL 1  Warbird N337GA in 2003.

                                                                        Exported in 2006 as VH-VTB  in Australia.

53353 USN                                               Commerative Air Force N5264V       Texas

                                                                                            USN blue WS-53 in 2006

53403  USN     ~~~~             ~~~~~~~      On loan by Pensacola to Nimitz Park, Texas

53420  RCN 343  FPL 16     CF-KCM              Warbird, 7 on tail, N420GP in 2005

                                                                      Tri-State Warbird Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

53454  USN       D 13         Gary Applebaum     blue in 2004  N7030C Virginia Beach

                       1945 USN Norfolk, Miami, Norfolk, Corpus Christi

                        1956 Idaho Air Tankers, Boise

                        mid 1980s two private owners

                        Then displayed at Corpus Christi until 1992

                        May 1998 Gary purchased it from Tallichet via Courtesy Aircraft

53479  USN   N9595C  E 67   Civil aviation says sale reported from Kansas.

53503  RCN ABK/AB*P/315     N6583D U.S. sprayer in the north east

                                                                                     Commerative Air Force                                    

                    The CAF got the registration changed to N53503 Grand Junction, Colorado

Flew for the 1970s as USN three shades of blue # 82 and white stripe on tail.

In 1989 in Colorado she got a turret, up-arrow on tail, side #309 & yellow cowl ring.

53522  USN N7410C   N88HP Blue USN 88 with up-arrow on tail N188TD in 2005

                                                                                   Claire Aviation, Philadelphia, Pa.       

53575  USN N6447C sprayed in N.B. Now with Jack Erickson, still N6447C in Wash.

                                                      (Part of Tillamook Air Museum, Oregon.)

53593  USN   N5567A   N6822C US Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida

               See Air Classics July 73 in binder for photo with painted on registration!

53607  USN N8398H  CF-ZYC H&L            Now painted as C-GFPL

                           Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

53610  RCN 303 CF-IMR  FPL 23                                                Still in 2006 with FPL.

53638  RCN FPL 9      CF-KCL   Now Mid Atlantic Air Museum, N109K, Reading, Pa.

                   ( Substantial Damage into Oromocto Lake  29 May 1978)

53726  USN  N7076C  USMC a/c now was at Quantico, El Toro and now Mirimar, Calif.

53768  USN N103Z   N10361  Norfolk / H&L C-GLDX  Now warbird N683G

     In 2005 metallic blue with red/white rudder, # 63 on side Thomas Buck, Joliet, Illinois

53785  USN  N7075C    In movie SMOKEY AND THE BEAR II with Burt Reynolds

                       about 1980.          Now with Pond Warbirds,  N7075C Palm Springs, Calif.

53787 USN  N3969A  A 21 Johnson  C-GFPT   -  -  -  -  -  -  -     Still in 2006 with FPL.

53804  RCN  304/906        N9710Z    E 79   

                                           On aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus Christie, Texas

53818  RCN 386 N9187Z   Now on civ av register but ? on it. N93818 (Yes, 9.)

                                                      Amjet Aircraft Corp. (Polar Aviation Museum) in MN

53828  RCN                                                        N9014C                     N28FB   Ocala, Fl.

53829    USN   N9591C   CF-AYG  Hicks&Lawrence  Now warbird N293E

                      Tri-State Warbird Collection      Gerald Beck, Wahpeton, North Dakota

53835  USN  N3967A sprayed in N.B. in 1982 from Dunphy.    Now still N3967A.

                      Was Skarda Flying Service,  Arkansas.  Now, 2007, Bob Russell,

                                                                                  Russcon LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona

53841  USN (Like confirmation of this) On aircraft carrier USS Intrepid in New York.

                        I cannot find my visit list, the web site is vague and another site says there    

                                    is a TBF-1, 24803 ??????.

53842  USN  N7025C, N603, N60393    On U.S.S. Yorktown, Patriot’s Point, S.C.

53857  USN N7017C  C-GFPM  FPL 21      In 2006  painted as WW II a/c in Australia

                                                                          USN blue 441 VH-MML

53858  USN         C-GFPR FPL 4 Evergreen/FPL    2002 to France as F-WQDN ??

53914  USN   N7029C   D 16  Aerial Applicators, Utah

                      Hicks & Lawrence CF- BQS  Crashed in NW Maine woods 19 May 1972

                               Recovered in Sept. 1991 by the Connecticut Air Guard for the

                             Quonset Air Museum at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island

69323 USN N7961C E 24 FPL 24 C-GLEJ Now Andrew Donohue, N124TB Argyle, Tx

69325  USN  N104Z McEwans/ H&L  CF-XOM         Now warbird N325GT

                     Three blues  T-88 no turret. Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia, Wash.

                             (Is for sale in Feb.2007 on Courtesy Aircraft site for $195,000.)

69327 RCN 326  CF-KCG  Conair 15       - - - - - - - - - Imperial War Museum, Duxford

                                               Painted as one of the many X 2 Bush aircraft.

69329  USN  N73642 D 23  Idaho  yellow/red/blue Texas Aviation Hall Of Fame  

                                           N700RW    (Lone Star Flight Museum)      Galveston, Texas

69355  USN N7850C  Sprayed in Israel.  Israel AF Museum   Hazerim Air Base

69361 USN  N9596C C-GOEG Norfolk/H&L B 16  Reynolds Museum,

                                                                                                    Wetaskiwin, Alb.

69374  USN  N9650C  Military Aircraft Restoration Corp., David Tallichat, was            

                                                           “Yesterdays Airforce.”  California

69375  USN   N3965A ex-spray plane, # revoked.     ex-Tonopah, Nevada aircraft  

                            ( Story in Naval Aviation News 1 March 2004) What story?

69459  USN  N8397H  sprayed in N.B. in 1982                           Still N8397H in 2007

                                                                                        John MacGuire in New Mexico

               War Eagles Air Museum at the Doña Ana County Airport in Santa Teresa, N.M.                 

                                                a blue/grey/white TBM with 59 in a triangle. 

69472  USN  N9593C  D 5 Boise      De-Reg. in April 91    Pima Air Museum, Arizona

69502  Royal Navy XB446     -   -   -   -   -   Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England

85460  RCN 346 N7032C FPL 3  C-GFPS   In U.S. in Nov.2005 as  N145WB

                                                             Registered to “Few TBMs LLC” in New Jersey

85506  RCN 385  N6582D                      was said to be stored in Israel AF Museum

85560  USN  N6830C  Tonopah , then Western Aerospace Museum now called the

                          Oakland Aviation Museum, North Field, Oakland Intl. Airport, Ca.                                   

85597  RCN 381  CF-IMK  FPL 2      Deleated from Can. Register in July 94.           

                      It had been stored in Midland Texas as N704QZ      Being rebuilt in 2007    

                                                     as N704QZ  by Commerative Air Force, Florida Wing

85632 USN N7002C Norfolk/H&L B 15  C-GOBJ   Now warbird N81865

                                                                                                   Fargo Air Museum, N.D.

85650  Dutch Navy! Guppy 16-102 later 045   Roberts/Strathallan 1977

     Arnold Warbirds – Blackbushe 1981-1985      Aces High, Duxford      to U.S.A. in 85

                                                     G-BTBM  N61BD            

                                 Averys Antique Airplanes  blue USN HA in 2003  N452HA  N.C.

85715  USN  N1369N E 27  FPL 8   C-GLEF     Now Wes Stricker, N65VC  Rolla, Mo.

85717  USN  was displayed for years at NAS Memphis      sold at auction

                                     A “project” aircraft for Edwin Forsberg, Wilmington, California.

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

                                         written-off at Chatham 16 August 1998

                                             main fuselage for Tanker 14 preserved at Boisetown, N.B.

85794  USN N7001C  First one painted as Bush X 2 and rolled through the U.S. capitol.

                               In 2005 USN blue RR 125. Hans Lauridsen     N7001C       Arizona

85828  USN  Their web site says they are getting one. Barbers Point Naval Air Museum

85861 RCN TF*D        Shearwater Aviation Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

85869  USN  N9927Z 39 Red & white Arizona water bomber.        F-AZJA in France

85882   USN     winter North Atlantic scheme on the east coast in 2006 N9584Z

                                                                                  David Tinker, Northville, Michigan

85886  USN                              in 2005 blue USN coded SL 401  N9586Z

                                In 2007 is registered to a numbered company in New Jersey

       But they say they have it > American Air Power Park & Museum, Hampton, Virginia

85890  USN N1952M           Owned by Marine Corps Museum, Quantico, Va.   2006

85938  USN  N7226C E 44 in Porterville, Calif. & others. Still N7226C

                                                           308 X  with       Danny Summers in Rexburg,  Idaho

85957  USN  was N9547Z which # was cancelled in 2006 shortly before it was

                              loaded on the aircraft carrier USS Midway in San Diego, California

                      The official name of the museum is San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum.

                      The TBM arrived in horrific shape with zero instruments, little fabric

                      and holes in the fuselage.  There is a volunteer association with a huge

                      operation at North Island Naval Air Station and that web site has hundreds

                      of photos of the aircraft arriving at the hangar and being fixed up.

85983 RCN 374 N4039A CF-BEG Mirimichi/H&L    Now warbird  N28SF in Calif.

86020  RCN #327  N7157C  63 C-GFPL            Still in 2007 on civ av register to FPL

86123  USN   N6831C E 22  Registration in question as now museum not flying. 

                  It was dark blue with RB 123.   Mid America Air Museum, Liberal, Kansas.

               Now on USS Hornet at former Naval Air Station Alameda in Oakland, Calif.,

                                       across the bay from San Francisco.

86180  RCN 324  CF-MUD  FPL 12   Museum aircraft at  USN Air Station Wildwood

                                                                               Museum, Rio Grande, New Jersey

86280  USN  N7219C USN blue in 2006. Cavanaugh Flight Museum N86280

                                                                                 Addison Airport near Dallas, Texas

91110 USN  N6827C E 58 sprayed in New Brunswick in 1982.

             U.S. registration cancelled in 1992 when it was

              in Duxford in Bush colors and then went to New Zealand.

                                        It has now moved to Australia as VH-TBM

                                                                             with Flying Fighters, Brisbane, Australia

91171  USN   N107Z One of the first 8 aircraft!!   CF-BQT    Hicks & Lawrence

                          An Australian web site says it was sold to  - Ag Air, Baytree, Alberta

                                              AND THERE I T IS on the Can. Civ. Av. Site in 2007 !!

                                 Google  Shaun Scandrett for his “The Old Avenger”

91188  USN   N108Z  water bomber in California & Georgia.  Now N108Q

                                    Valiant Air Command Museum, Titisville (Cocoa Beach) Florida

                                    See story in Air Classics 43/7 Summer 2007.

91195  Japan                                              Was in full JMSDF colors at Tateyama, Japan

91264 USN   Original USN, had no fire mods.   Air Museum, N7835C  Chino, California

91388  USN  N9564Z      Registered to Craig Branson still as N9564Z in North Carolina

                 three blues & #1  (SOLD May 2007 on Courtesy Aircraft site. $269,000.)

91426  RCN   CF-MUE   FPL 18       Gone to American Airpower Heritage Flying

                               the Commerative Air Force museum as N40402 in Midland, Texas

91436  USN  N9569Z  Reilly a/c hulk, Kissimee

                          Jan. 2007 N436GM Charles Cartledge, Seville, Ohio, under restoration

91453  USN  N4170A  D 10 Idaho            4 owners  blue USN 15 in 2005 N4170A

                                                            Fort Valley, Virginia

  connection with Tennessee Aviation Museum, Sevierville-Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge  !!!!

91521  USN  N4171A  D 11  Idaho  Corky Meyer, Ocala, Fla.

                                        Fuselage burnt – rebuilt using Bu. 53489 fuselage.

                                                                Northern Indiana Aviation Museum in 2002

91586  USN N9433Z  C 56 Nevada Sprayed in N.B. in 1982  Rebuilt by Grumman

                                     88 >  90 for Friends for Long Island Heritage

                     Still as N9433Z in Muttontown, Long Island, Cradle Of Aviation Museum

91598  USN   N9548Z  E 76 crash 1973  now  Kermit Weeks Collection,  badly damaged  

                                in hurricane Andrew in 1992 at the former site near Miami.

 2001 bare metal  N9548Z       He is now at the Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City, Fla.

91637  USN                     N10164  Civil registration in question?

91664  USN   N9651C E 57  Civil Reg. has been revoked was at Cecil Field Naval Air  

 Station,  which base closed in 1999.  Now loaned by Pensacola to NAS Jacksonville, Fla.

91714  USN     N9429Z  E 51  D 12     Another one for Wes Stricker still N9429Z in Mo.

91726  USN    N5260V  E 65  Restored in N.M. in 1980s as 32 NE

                    Evergreen Air Venture Museum (SPRUCE GOOSE) N5260V   Oregon

91733 USN    N9590Z E 81  then in Mesa, Arizona as C 25 sprayed in N.B. and was still  

             Restored in Kissimee 88 > 91.           N9590Z under Clarke Hill, trustee,

                (Collins Foundation, Stow, Vermont)    in 2006 in Wentworth, New Hampshire

91741  USN   N6829C  another one spraying in Israel and now with Israeli AF Museum

The National Warplane Museum

“Wings Of Eagles Airshow”, Batavia, N.Y.  (Genseo)   have a TBM also owned by the U.S.M.C.

Wings Over Miami have an unpainted TBM on their web-site.

N4172A  Bu.# ?    Was Tom Reilly Vintage Aircraft, Kissimee, Florida

                               Now, 2007, Jones Field, Anoka County – Blaine Airport

                               Photo on airport-data.com