"Full Stall Landing" -- TBF-1C Avenger (Pt Loma -- 150 fsw)

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I'll ask around to see if anybody I know has any info on it.

This images shows it near the door of the USS White Sands.

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Start with Image 7.

 
This images shows it near the door of the USS White Sands.


Start with Image 7.


My guess is that it is this one:


- brett
 
This images shows it near the door of the USS White Sands.


Start with Image 7.


PS - It is definitely BuNo 66237 currently at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. Check out this link:


It even mentions the "Z11" marking.

- brett
 
I am amazed that the plane came up so clean after 25 years in the ocean (1944-1970).

There was a lot of corrosion but not as much as you would expect in shallow water. I'm pretty sure it was in very deep water and the Scuba divers in the images were just inspecting and readjusting the rigging before floating it into the White Sands.

I remember it didn't smell like dead fish after more than a day out of the water. That is a further indication there was very little growth, even deep inside.
 
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