Finding visuals...
  • The Locator
  • Airframes Database

    Social media...
    Follow AV on facebook
    Follow AV on Twitter @aerial_visuals
    Follow the AV YouTube Channel

    Site navigation...
  • Home
  • Desktop Calendar
  • The Racers
  • FAQs
  • About Aerial Visuals
  • Comment on this Dossier
    • Search For Airframes Now
    Search - Index - Gallery - Reports - Lists - AV Needs You!

    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53607 USN
    Construction Number:3669
    Last Civil Registration:CF-ZYC
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 53607 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Bedford, Halifax, Nova Scotia

    EDIT THE HISTORY HERE    		 If you can add to the history or would like to submit a correction please use the editor to do so.

    UPLOAD A PHOTO    		 If you have a photo of this airframe to share then use the photo upload tool.
    The Airframes Database depends on user contributions to stay current.
    If you have any news about this airframe or photos which you would like to share please do so
    by using the links above.
    The more you and others share the better the database becomes!

    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53607.

    By 1963

    To Cisco Aircraft Inc, Lancaster CA with new c/r N8398H.

    June 1963


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall Collection
    Notes: CISCO TBM N8398H at Mojave CA June 1963 without spray bars.

    28 August 1963

    To Aerial Applications Inc, Salt Lake City, UT keeping c/r N8398H.

    29 August 1966


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: N8398H / D20 Grumman TBM-3E Avenger (3669) ex BuAer: 53607 of Aerial Applicators

    12 March 1971

    Civil registration, N8398H, cancelled.

    19 March 1971

    To Hicks and Lawrence Ltd, Tillsonburg, ON with new c/r CF-ZYC.

    Operated as fire service #20.

    To New Brunswick Forest Protection Ltd (FPL) keeping c/r CF-ZYC.

    Operated as fire service #20.

    20 May 1975

    Crashed.
    Took off from the Juniper Airstrip in New Brunswick on a spray mission. Only minutes later lost power and made a wheels-up landing in a swampy area near the airstrip.

    1996

    A group of ACAM members approached FPL and J.D. Irving Woodlands (the owner of the land where the wreck layed) regarding the recovery of the airframe.

    Circa September 1996

    The recovery effort was started. The airframe was jacked up and the gear lowered. The tail surfaces were removed.

    January 1997

    The airframe was moved out of the forest on skies constructed from guard rails.

    10 January 1997

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to the Jupiter airstrip.

    July 1997

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to the Forest Protection Limited base in Fredericton, NB.

    From 1997 to Circa June 2005

    Restored.
    The work was carried out at the Fredericton FPL facility. FPL provided the museum with parts from the crashes of Tanker 14 (1998) and Tanker 17 (1999).

    Circa June 2005

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Bedford, Halifax, NS.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: C-GFPL, 24
    Finished in the markings of an FPL Avenger which in April 2010, crashed and whose pilot, Ron Clowes, perished.

    11 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier is based on
    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
    Individual Contributors
     Chris Adam
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Tell Others About this Airframe Dossier
    Forum Link: [URL=https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=110070][IMG]/home/users/web/b1393/nf.aerialvisuals/public_html/AV/Support/Logo_20x20.jpg[/IMG]Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Grumman-General Motors TBM-3E Avenger, s/n 53607 USN, c/n 3669, c/r CF-ZYC[/URL]
    Direct Link: https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=110070
    Copyright 1993-2025 ww.AerialVisuals.ca
    The Aerial Visuals pages are best viewed with a screen at least 800 pixels wide.
    In case you are wondering Aerial Visuals is a huge fan Google Chrome. If you do not have Chrome installed why not?
    Aerial Visuals requires cookies and Javascript to function correctly. Please ensure these features are enabled in your browser.
    Aerial Visuals is powered by Netfirms.