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United States Navy. TBM-3E. Construction #: 3546.
Airway Inc, Yakima, WA
#111 N7031C 1963-1970
Aerial Spray Program – NB, Newfoundland
1968 – Flew probably in NB and Newfoundland, based on the caption on the slide (see figure below). Both provinces undertook extensive spraying operations that year. 1969 – Flew in Newfoundland and NB. Pilot Roberts. 1970 – Flew out of Chipman NB. Pilot Gunns.
Crashed 21 June 1970, St. Martins, NB, at 0745 AM. After a reported oil leak and an attempt to reach Saint John airport, the TBM was seen to go out of control after starting a swath run, crash in timber and burn. Pilot Gunns (age 48), from Yakima, WA, was killed. The aircraft was on its way to Upper Blackville, NB, the site of the Dunphy Airstrip. [FPL report, Forest Spraying Operations – 1970] St. Martins is located on the Bay of Fundy in St. John County, southern NB. The US NTSB Report references the Canadian report (CAN714A905).
Airway N7031C with #111 on the tail, with JD Irving #508 FIMO at rear, Dunphy airstrip, NB, 1968.
Airway TBM #111 N7031C, Deer Lake NF, 1969. [S.E. Holmes]
12 of 19 TBMs at Deer Lake airport, NF, 1969. The two yellow and black aircraft, one in the last row and one way at the back, are N7031C and N7032C, but which one is which cannot be determined.
N7031C with no tail number, presumably in the US, no date. [Richard W. Kamm via August Horvath]
Crash site of N7031C, near St. Martins NB, 1970.
NTSB accident report.
