Warbird Registry
Aerial Visuals
Early History
United States Navy. TBM-3. Construction #: 3318
Aerial Applicators, Salt Lake City, UT, #D19, N9592C, 1963-1970.
TBM #D19, with short canopy, at Salt Lake City, Utah, 4 August 1966. [NA3T Archive of Transport Travel and Trade]
Hicks & Lawrence Ltd., St. Thomas, ON
#19 CF-ZYB 1971-1975
1971 – FZYB was scheduled to come to NB but crashed 1 June 1971 during a practice flight north of Dryden, Ontario. [Don Henry] The pilot was Clarence “Clare” Syme of Abbotsford, B.C. See the article about this crash in the Ottawa Citizen. A 2011 post to a geocaching site (RCCanada.ca) turned up four images of the crash site and wreck and on the second page, an aerial photo of the precise location of the wreck/geocache site.
H&L #19 crash site nw of Dryden, Ontario. Images posted by Bill Brisson 12 June 2011 to RCCanada.ca.
