RCAF 2150 to 2199

Canadian Military Aircraft
Serial Numbers
RCAF 2150 to 2199
Detailed List

Photograph courtesy of the Ventura Memorial Flight Association

	Designer	Manufacturer	basic designation	variant or model	name
	company designation	company number
2150	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5092
	Ex USN, BuNo. 33083. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 19 April 1943			last date: 26 June 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2151	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5124
	Ex USN, BuNo 33115. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 19 April 1943			last date: 16 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2152	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5125
	Ex USN, BuNo 33116. Assigned to Eastern Air Command. With No. 113 (BR) Squadron in Nova Scotia, c.1943. Coded "N". Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "K".
	first date: 19 April 1943			last date: 27 June 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2153	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5131
	Ex USN, BuNo 33122. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 19 April 1943			last date: 27 June 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2154	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5139
	Ex USN, BuNo. 33130. At RCAF Station Sydney, NS in 1943.
	first date: 19 April 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2155	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5128
	Ex USN, BuNo. 33119. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 27 April 1943			last date: 26 June 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2156	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5132
	Ex USN, BuNo. 33123. Category B damage on 26 August 1944, while serving with No. 113 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Torbay, Newfoundland (transferred to No. 145 Squadron by this time?).
	first date: 27 April 1943			last date: 6 November 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2157	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5135
	Ex USN, BuNo 33126. With No. 113 (BR) Squadron in Nova Scotia, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "W".
	first date: 27 April 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2158	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5159
	Ex USN, BuNo 33150. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "R".
	first date: 30 April 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2159	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5157
	Ex USN, BuNo 33148. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "P".
	first date: 30 April 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2160	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5169
	Ex USN, BuNo 33160. Based at RCAF Station Gander, Newfoundland. With No. 145 (BR) Squadron in Eastern Air Command, coded "S", by September 1943.
	first date: 30 April 1943			last date: 19 March 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2161	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5141
	Ex USN, BuNo 33132. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "O" (or Q?).
	first date: 30 April 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2162	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5136
	Ex USN, BuNo 33127. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "U". Category C damage on 28 January 1944.
	first date: 30 April 1943			last date: 26 October 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2163	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5134
	Ex USN, BuNo 33125. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "B". Category B damage at Gander, Newfoundland on 17 August 1943.
	first date: 30 April 1943			last date: 17 April 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2164	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5161
	Ex USN, BuNo 33152. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "H".
	first date: 20 May 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2165	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5162
	Ex USN, BuNo 33153. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "X". Classified as Instructional Airframe A 452 on 20 November 1945. Later to US civil register as N131A.
	first date: 20 May 1943			last date: 4 October 1949
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sodl
2166	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5164
	Ex USN, BuNo 33155. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "T". Category A damage at Dartmouth on 10 March 1945.
	first date: 20 May 1943			last date: 11 April 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2167	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5165
	Ex USN, BuNo 33156. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "W". Category B damage on 25 October 1943.
	first date: 20 May 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2168	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5163
	Ex USN, BuNo 33154. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "E". Category B damage on 25 October 1943.
	first date: 27 May 1943			last date: 8 July 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2169	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5166
	Ex USN, BuNo 33157. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "A". Category A damage at Gander, Newfoundland on 6 August 1943.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 20 March 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2170	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5247
	Ex USN, BuNo 33238. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "G".
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2171	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5245
	Ex USN, BuNo 33236. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/44. Coded "Y".
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 11 October 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A crash on 6 July 1944 at Goose Bay, Newfoundland.
2172	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5248
	Ex USN, BuNo 33239. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "I". Category C damage on 3 October 1944.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2173	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5241
	Ex USN, BuNo 33232. Served with No. 8 (BR) Squadron on west coast.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2174	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5170
	Ex USN, BuNo 33161. Assigned to Western Air Command. To civil register as CF-HBW, off register by 1976.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 19 March 1957
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2175	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5239
	Ex USN, BuNo 33230. In use at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC in 1944.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 3 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2176	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5246
	Ex USN, BuNo 33237. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "A".
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 14 August 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A damage on 3 April 1944.
2177	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5244
	Ex USN, BuNo 33235. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "H".
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2178	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5171
	Ex USN, BuNo 33162. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "O". With No. 122(K) Squadron in BC, 1944/45.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 4 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2179	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5172
	Ex USN, BuNo 33163. Assigned to Western Air Command. Pieces recovered near Meritt, BC in 1994, to be used in reconstruction of 2195.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 3 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2180	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5258
	Ex USN, BuNo 33249. Assigned to Western Air Command. To US civil register as N4005.
	first date: 29 May 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2181	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5167
	Ex USN, BuNo 33158. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 4 June 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2182	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5168
	Ex USN, BuNo 33159. Assigned to Eastern Air Command. Baugher reports this BuNo as lost in mid air collision on 24 August 1944, while serving with USN unit VB-2.
	first date: 4 June 1943			last date: 5 January 1948
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2183	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5242
	Ex USN, BuNo 33233. With No. 113 (BR) Squadron in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "D". Flew this unit's last operation out of from Torbay, Newfoundland, escort to US convoy, on 16 August 1944.
	first date: 4 June 1943			last date: 17 April 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2184	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5266
	Ex USN, BuNo 33257. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "C".
	first date: 4 June 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2185	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5267
	Ex USN, BuNo 33258. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Flew this unit's last war time patrol on 16 May 1945, from Patricia Bay. Later to US civil register, as N544B.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2186	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5269
	Ex USN, BuNo 33260. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "N". Later to US civil register, as N9060.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2187	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5270
	Ex USN, BuNo 33261. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "T".
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 27 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2188	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5271
	Ex USN, BuNo 33262. In use at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC in 1945.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2189	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5272
	Ex USN, BuNo 33263. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "Q". Later to US civil register, as N721N.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2190	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5275
	Ex USN, BuNo 33266. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "C".
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2191	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5280
	Ex USN, BuNo 33271. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC. To civil register as CF-KEH, off register by 1976. Later to US civil register, as N11P.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 8 June 1953
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2192	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5282
	Ex USN, BuNo 33273. Category C damage on 15 March 1944, while with No. 8 (BR) Squadron in BC, coded "A". Later with No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 3 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2193	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5327
	Ex USN, BuNo 33318. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC. Reported Missing In Action on 26 October 1943.
	first date: 10 June 1943			last date: 10 May 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2194	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5085
	Ex USN, BuNo 33076. Fitted with dual controls. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "B".
	first date: 14 June 1943			last date: 3 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2195	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5324
	Ex USN, BuNo 33315, completed on 6 May 1943. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, Annette Island, Alaska, and Terrace BC, coded "ZM*R". Stored at Vulcan, Alberta. To No. 1 Air Armament School, RCAF Station Trenton c.1950. To civil register as CF-FAV, registered to Spartan Air Services. Used for survey work in northern Canada, abandoned after forced landing in NWT on 14 August 1953. Being restored to flying condition by Ventura Memorial Flight Association in Edmonton, Alberta, see www.rcafventura.ca. Group found aircraft near Hay River, NWT in 1987, re-registered as CF-ZMR. Main airframe airlifted to Yellowknife Airport by No. 447 Squadron Chinook on 18 June 1988. Some pieces of 2179 being used. work still underway in 2005.
	first date: 14 June 1943			last date: 10 March 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2196	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5283
	Ex USN, BuNo 33274. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC.
	first date: 15 June 1943			last date: 19 February 1953
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2197	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5332
	Ex USN, BuNo 33323. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC.
	first date: 15 June 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2198	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5336
	Ex USN, BuNo 33327. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC. Flew this unit's first mission as a BR squadron; patrol from Annette Island on 1 September 1943. To US civil register as N234P.
	first date: 15 June 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold.
2199	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5340
	Ex USN, BuNo 33331. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC.
	first date: 15 June 1943			last date: 17 July 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A crash on 22 June 1945 at Penfield (River?).

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Created 4 September 2005. Updated 4 September 2005.