RCN Avenger 53437 of VC 920 Reserve Sqn crashed approx. 15 feet from a home on the outskirts of Fonthill Ontario, killing the pilot. The house was damaged but no one on the ground was hurt.
Accident Grumman TBM-3E Avenger 53437, 25 May 1958 (aviation-safety.net)
Grumman Avenger AS 3
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American-built torpedo bomber flown by the RN during the Second World War. The Avenger entered U.S. service in 1942, and first saw action during the Battle of Midway. In service with many Allied nations, the Avenger became the most widely-used torpedo bomber of the Second World War. Greatly modified after the war, it remained in use until the 1960s.
One of the primary postwar users of the Avenger was the Royal Canadian Navy, which obtained 125 former US Navy TBM-3E Avengers from 1950 to 1952 to replace their venerable Fairey Fireflies. By the time the Avengers were delivered, the RCN was shifting its primary focus to anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and the aircraft was rapidly becoming obsolete as an attack platform. Consequently, 98 of the RCN Avengers were fitted with an extensive number of novel ASW modifications, including radar, electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment, and sonobuoys, and the upper ball turret was replaced with a sloping glass canopy that was better suited for observation duties. The modified Avengers were designated AS 3. A number of these aircraft were later fitted with a large magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) boom on the rear left side of the fuselage and were redesignated AS 3M. However, RCN leaders soon realized the Avenger's shortcomings as an ASW aircraft, and in 1954 they elected to replace the AS 3 with the Grumman S-2 Tracker, which offered longer range, greater load-carrying capacity for electronics and armament, and a second engine, a great safety benefit when flying long-range ASW patrols over frigid North Atlantic waters. As delivery of the new license-built CS2F Trackers began in 1957, the Avengers were shifted to training duties, and were officially retired in July 1960.
Wikipedia
RCN aircraft were identified in squadron service by a side number, painted on the nose of the aircraft. That number indicated the squadron, and the aircraft number in that squadron. These numbers are shown as "coded" (if known); later the last three digits of the aircraft serial number were used, shown as NAVY+L3.
Avenger serials from US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos--Third Series (50360 to 99860)joebaugher.com, and updated from - Martin "“ RCN Aircraft Finish & Markings 1944-1968.
1,249 L (275 imp gal;330 US gal ) in three center-section integral tanks
Powerplant:
One 1,900 hp Wright R-2600-20 Cyclone 14, 14 cylinder, double-banked radial piston engine with a single
stage, two-speed supercharger.
Propellers:
3-blade, Hamilton-Standard Hydromatic propellor.
Maximum speed:
430 kph (267 mph; 232 kn)
Cruise speed:
648 km/h (403 mph; 350 kn)
Range:
1819 km (1130 mi)
Endurance:
5.5 hrs
Service ceiling:
10,668 m (35,000 ft)
Armament
Two Browning .5 inch machine guns.
Any combination of: six depth charges; eight 25 pound armour piercing rocket projectiles (seven projectiles
if the radar pod was mounted); bombs; homing torpedoes and smoke or flame floats.
Avionics
Radar systems:
AN/APS-4 search radar.
Passive sensors:
AN/AQA-5 Jezebel Low Frequency Analyzer and Recorder sonobuoy sound analyzer to identify type of vessel
AN/ASQ-502 Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) on extended tail boom to measure presence of iron from a vessel's
hull
AN/UPD-501 ESM radar signal pulse identification for identifying and locating submarine radar transmissions