Caught with Nimrod XZ284 on take off, about to display...Just to mention that George Bush junior was also a pilot , with the USAF flying the F102...

Ex-BuNo 91521, the original fuselage was destroyed by fire during restoration and the rebuild was completed by using the fuselage from BuNo 53489 c/n 3551. (Thanks to Joe Baugher's US Navy Serials web site.

Another Warbird in the Paul Bennet Fleet is VH-MML, A TBM-3 Avenger, and Australia's only flying/preserved example.

On 19th November 1971 the aircraft was placed on the US Civil Aircraft Register as N5006 to the Western Michigan University, but then that registration was cancelled later that same day!

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

Aircraft sustained fuel management problems (misidentified as a mechanical issue) during a low-level spraying flight out of Sussex, NB and attempted a wheels-up forced landing on McLaughlan Road / Highway 126 north of Moncton, NB, Canada. A wingtip struck a telephone pole and the aircraft swerved off the road into a field, sustaining significant damage. Normally prior to spraying a block there was a radio call for "spray check" at which time a full wing tank was selected and revs increased among other items. Pilot missed this call due to radio malfunction. The fuselage was trucked out the previous day. Pilot was unhurt.

Ex CF-KCG, Royal Canadian Navy 326, US Navy 69327. It was damaged beyond repair in a forced landing in Canada on 29 May 1975 following fuel starvation, and acquired by the IWM in 1977. It arrived at Duxford in November 1977 and eventually restored for exhibition in the American Air Museum, painted as 46214/X3 flown by George H. W. Bush.