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This one is not making sense. Things are missing, things are added.

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Early COD Fleet Test/Flight Test?
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Jet engine in the belly?

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The FT on the engine cowl is for Flight Test and is typical on aircraft assigned to Pax River during WWII.

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24141 Grumman XTBF-3 Avenger MSN 5024. Trial installation of Wright R-2600-20 engine. Also became flying test bed for Halford H-1B turbojet. First flight Dec 1944, nick-named "Fertile Myrtle"

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