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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBF-1 Avenger
    Last Military Serial:NZ2505 RNZAF
    Construction Number:5220
    Compressed ID:Grumman TBF-1 sn NZ2505 RNZAF cn 52...
    Latest Owner or Location:Classic Flyers Museum, Tauranga Airport, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBF-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 24337.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ2505.

    To Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society, Gisborne Airport, Gisborne, Gisborne, North Island.
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    Based at Classic Flyers Museum, Tauranga Airport, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island.
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    25 August 2014


    Photographer: Mark Pattenden
    Notes: NZ2505 was the first RNZAF Avenger to arrive at the Air Forces base in Gisborne in 1943, where it operated as part of the RNZAF 30 squadronaCOs training wing while crews prepared for operations in the Pacific.The plane was surplussed by the RNZAF and sold to Waitomo Aviation in 1959 and went to a playground at Opunake Beach in 1964. It departed in 1972 to the Silverstream Transport Museum before being purchased by the RNZAF Museum in Wigram in 1987, who robbed it as a source of parts for their restoration of NZ2504. The Museum shipped the plane to GAPS in October of 1999 and sat there for many years before arriving here at Tauranga.

    10 November 2016


    Photographer: Peter Mole
    Notes: At Tauranga Airport, NZ
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