Welcome to the TBM Avengers Archive supported by the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum (located near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). You will find detailed information about Grumman Avenger Aircraft used by Forest Protection Limited, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, as well as information regarding Avengers which have been used in New Brunswick in aerial application programs from other parts of Canada and the USA.
The page menu offers information about 85 individual Grumman TBM Avengers used in aerial spraying and fire suppression in New Brunswick and neighbouring provinces. There is a quick reference list of pilots who have flown Avengers as well as the status list for the aircraft listed here.
Further to my earlier post regarding the name HAWES showing up on your site as pilot of KCH in 1966 and it possibly being in error. It was actually MY error. I had been missing some of his logs which I subsequently found and indeed he WAS spraying with KCH in the summer of ’66 so the entry is correct. In fact he also sprayed with KCF in ’64 and IMM in ’65 after which he went fire bombing in Kamloops with KCF midway through June of 1965.. Entries also show him spraying with IMM in ’68 and as late as ’69 with IMO and IMX.. seems he had been flying rotary in between the spraying seasons. There are only three flights noted in May of 70 on IMX,, It appears he lost control on take off, damaging the prop. Thereafter all his entries are on rotary a/c
Regarding the request to use the Avenger pictures in my Flickr photostream (photostream of gordonhunter, first page). You’re wecome to use it. I have a couple more of them in flight but of lesser quality. If you’re interested in seeing them I’ll post them on Flickr at least till you can download them. As for the one you requested, I took it around 1958 at an airshow in Wetaskiwin Alberta if memory serves but after 50+ years it is not perfectly reliable.
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