HISTORY
DISTINCTION
The Museum’s TBM-3E was manufactured in Trenton, New Jersey, delivered on July 19, 1945, and was assigned as a replacement aircraft for the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13). At the time, the Franklin was in the Brooklyn Navy Yard undergoing extensive repairs for severe damage incurred in March 1944 off the coast of Japan. The carrier would not return to service. With the war ended, the Museum’s Avenger was stored as a surplus aircraft at several Naval facilities including Weymouth, MA, Norfolk, VA, and El Centro, CA until it was stricken from Navy records in 1950. The Museum acquired the aircraft in 1959. It was restored to flight in 1976.
SPECIFICATIONS
| Status: Flyable |
| Manufacturer: General Motors Company - Eastern Aircraft Division |
| Year: 1945 |
| Model: TBM-3E Avenger |
| Registration Number: N7835C |
| Serial Number: 91264 |
| Crew: 3 |
| Max T/O Weight: 17,364 lb. |
| Span: 54 ft. 2 in. |
| Length: 40 ft. 0 in. |
| Height: 16 ft. 5 in. |
| Maximum Speed: 267 mph |
| Cruise Speed: 145 mph |
| Rate of Climb: 2,060 ft/ min |
| Power Plant: 1, 1,700-hp Wright R-2600-20 Double Cyclone 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine |
| Range: 1,105 miles |
| Service Ceiling: 22,400 ft. |
| Armament: 4 machine guns: two .50-cal forward, one turret .50-cal, & one ventral .30-cal |
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