Avengers
Three Avengers at the 2025 Thunder Over Michigan Airshow.
The aircraft in front is Doris Mae.
From the Commemorative Air Force’s Capital Wing:
Doris Mae is a TBM-3E Avenger, built under license by General Motors in New Jersey during the final weeks of World War II. Delivered on August 2, 1945, she was transferred to the Marine Corps and used in postwar training roles. Later, she served in the Royal Canadian Navy as an anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and eventually became a forest firefighting aircraft in Canada before being acquired by the CAF in 2001.
In 2008, the CAF Capital Wing began a full restoration of the aircraft, meticulously returning her to a World War II configuration and honoring the TBM’s original mission. She now flies in the colors of VMTB-143, a Marine squadron that operated from the USS Gilbert Islands during the summer of 1945.
Avengers
Three Avengers at the 2025 Thunder Over Michigan Airshow.
The aircraft in front is Doris Mae.
From the Commemorative Air Force’s Capital Wing:
Doris Mae is a TBM-3E Avenger, built under license by General Motors in New Jersey during the final weeks of World War II. Delivered on August 2, 1945, she was transferred to the Marine Corps and used in postwar training roles. Later, she served in the Royal Canadian Navy as an anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and eventually became a forest firefighting aircraft in Canada before being acquired by the CAF in 2001.
In 2008, the CAF Capital Wing began a full restoration of the aircraft, meticulously returning her to a World War II configuration and honoring the TBM’s original mission. She now flies in the colors of VMTB-143, a Marine squadron that operated from the USS Gilbert Islands during the summer of 1945.