Grumman TBM-3 AvengerSingle-Engine Piston Aircraft • Kidron, OH, USA

The Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, registered as N10164 with serial number BuNo. 91637, is presented as a restoration project. This specific aircraft is a TBM-3N variant, a night attack model built by General Motors' Eastern Division, and it holds significant historical provenance. It served with FASRON 3 in 1948 and later with VCN-2 in Key West, Florida, as part of the Fleet All-Weather Training Unit - Atlantic. The aircraft was purchased in 1959 by spray pilot Christopher D. Stoltzfus but was never converted for agricultural use, later being sold to Walter Soplata and stored on his farm for nearly fifty years before being reacquired by the...