RCAF 2200 to 2249

Canadian Military Aircraft
Serial Numbers
RCAF 2200 to 2249
Detailed List

Photograph courtesy of the Ventura Memorial Flight Association, Edmonton

	Designer	Manufacturer	basic designation	variant or model	name
	company designation	company number
2200	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5333
	Ex USN, BuNo 33324. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska, and/or Terrace BC. Sold post war to Kenting Aviation, no registration record.
	first date: 15 June 1943			last date: 7 February 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2201	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5338
	Ex USN, BuNo 33317. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alska, and/or Terrace BC. Also served with Eastern Air Command, dates unknown.
	first date: 22 June 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2202	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5331
	Ex USN, BuNo 33319. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alska, and/or Terrace BC.
	first date: 22 June 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2203	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5328
	Ex USN, BuNo 33322. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alska, and/or Terrace BC. Also served with Eastern Air Command, dates unknown.
	first date: 22 June 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2204	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5326
	Ex USN, BuNo 33329. With No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alska, and/or Terrace BC. Flew this unit's last mission; patrol from Terrace on 19 February 1944.
	first date: 22 June 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2205	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5163
	Ex USN, BuNo 33164. Assigned to Eastern Air Command. This BuNo. is reported on the web as company number 5173, later to US register as N1958S.
	first date: 25 June 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2206	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5381
	Ex USN, BuNo 33372. With No. 8 (BR) Squadron on west coast, coded "C". Sold to Spartan Aviation.
	first date: 25 June 1943			last date: 4 June 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2207	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5243
	Ex USN, BuNo 33234. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "Q". Baugher lists this BuNo as being lost on 19 June 1943, while serving with US Navy.
	first date: 25 June 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2208	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5276
	Ex USN, BuNo 33267. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "L".
	first date: 5 July 1943			last date: 12 April 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A crash at Dartmouth on 16 February 1944.
2209	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5334
	Ex USN, BuNo 33325. Assigned to Western Air Command. Later used at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Sold to Kenting Aviation. To US civil register as N922PN.
	first date: 5 July 1943			last date: 20 March 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2210	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5372
	Ex USN, BuNo 33363. Assigned to Western Air Command. Sold, to civil register as CF-HBX. Off Canadian register by 1976. Later to US register as N721N.
	first date: 5 July 1943			last date: 22 September 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2211	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5371
	Ex USN, BuNo 33362. Assigned to Western Air Command.
	first date: 5 July 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2212	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5279
	Ex USN, BuNo 33272 or 33270(?). Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "J". Category C damage on 21 March 1945, at Torbay, Newfoundland.
	first date: 6 July 1943			last date: 17 April 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2213	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5268
	Ex USN, BuNo 33259. Assigned to Eastern Air command.
	first date: 7 July 1943			last date: 10 February 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A damage on 2 September 1943 at Sydney, NS.
2214	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5277
	Ex USN, BuNo 33268. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "F".
	first date: 7 July 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2215	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5278
	Ex USN, BuNo 33269. Converted to target tug on 22 June 1948. Sold to Kenting Aviation.
	first date: 7 July 1943			last date: 20 March 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2216	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5273
	Ex USN, BuNo 33264. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 7 July 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2217	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5274
	Ex USN, BuNo 33265. Assigned to Eastern Air Command. Category B damage on 30 May 1944. To Us civil register as N730EG. Reported as crashed and destroyed while smuggling drugs, at Culiacan, Mexico on 1 April 1975.
	first date: 7 July 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2218	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5375 or 5374?
	Ex USN, BuNo 33365. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, at time of crash. Coded "B". Also reported as BuNo 33366, but Baugher reports this BuNo, company number 5375, on US civil register post war.
	first date: 12 July 1943			last date: 14 July 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A crash on 25 April 1944.
2219	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5376
	Ex USN, BuNo 33367. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Sold post war to Spartan Aviation, registered as CF-FSL.
	first date: 12 July 1943			last date: 4 June 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2220	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5377
	Ex USN, BuNo 33368. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Later on US civil register as N10477, owned by Howard Aero Service of San Antonio, TX.
	first date: 15 July 1943			last date: 25 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2221	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5378
	Ex USN, BuNo 33369. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Stored postwar at RCAF Station Vulcan, Alberta, before being sold in 1953. First registered as N1590V, to Universal Trading Co. of NYC. At Spartan Aircraft in Tulsa, OK for excutive conversion, Dec 1953 to August 1955. Damaged on 27 September 1955, when undercarriage collapsed during landing at Tulsa, OK. After several changes of ownership, (and re-registered as N159V, then N159U) modified for aerial seeding in 1964, owned by Clark's Aerial Service of Brownfield, Texas. More ownership changes, then 1980 until 1986 N159U stored outside at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida before being purchased by Aero Nostalgia in 1985, and restored to airworthy condition. In 1988 the aircraft was traded to the RAAF Museum, and N159U became VH-SFF, painted as A59-67 of the RAAF's No 13 Squadron. Flown to Australia, 11 June to 11 July 1988. The aircraft was flown by the RAAF's Historic Flight until gear up landing after double engine failure on 19 November 1996, and VH-SFF is currently in storage awaiting repair to static display condition. Struck off Australian register on 28 August 2002.
	first date: 17 July 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2222	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5379
	Ex USN, BuNo 33370. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Converted to target tug on 22 August 1946. Later to US civil register as N456G, registered to Business Aircraft Corporation, San Antonio, TX..
	first date: 17 July 1943			last date: 22 September 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2223	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5490
	Ex USN, BuNo 34600. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Sold to Spartan Aircraft. To US civil register as N31J, registered to Business Aircraft Corp. of St. Petersburg, FLA..
	first date: 17 July 1943			last date: 4 June 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2224	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5488
	Ex USN, BuNo 34598. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Also with No. 8 (BR) Squadron in 1944.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 1 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2225	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5491
	Ex USN, BuNo 34601. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 22 September 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2226	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5492
	Ex USN, BuNo 34602. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Also with Eastern Air Command, dates unknown. To US civil register after being sold, as N183PL, owner in 1974 was Aero Union of Chino, CA. Purchased by T. Ramey of Stockton, California in 2002.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2227	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5495
	Ex USN, BuNo 34605. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Sold to Spartan Aircraft.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 19 March 1957
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2228	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5497
	Ex USN, BuNo 34607. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. To US civil register as N75382, Spartan Air Services, 1952 to 1955. Then to Howard Aero Service of San Antonio as N100M, 1955 to 1960. Converted to Howard 500, and Howard 400(?). With Natural Gas, Omaha, Nebraska when undercarriage collapsed on landing at Billings, MT on 12 April 1961. Registered as N501N on 22 May 1965. Owned by Nello L. Terr Co. of Durham, NC 1965 to 1972. To Dee Howard Co. January 1972, then to A. P. St. Philip Inc. of Florida 1972 to 1975. Several subsequent owners. Registered as N2ES July 1977, N52ES in June 1984. Reported sold to Edwin B. Dearborn of Kenner, LA in November of 1984. Reported on internet as displayed in Aeronautical Museum at Catam AFB, Columbia, painted to represent Lodestar of the Columbian AF.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2229	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5373
	Ex USN, BuNo 33364. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 22 September 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2230	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5489
	Ex USN, BuNo 34599. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2231	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5494
	Ex USN, BuNo 34604. With No. 115 (BR) Squadron in BC, c. 1943 to 1944. Flew this unit's last operation, anti-submarine patrol from Tofino, BC, on 17 August 1944. To US civil register as N815G, registered to Air Carriers Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, FLA in 1978.
	first date: 22 July 1943			last date: 22 August 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2232	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5375
	Ex USN, BuNo 33366. Assigned to Western Air Command. Later to US civil register as N80BD. Registered to Red River Ranch Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, FLA in 1976. Reported destroyed after in flight wing failure, while smuggling drugs, near Yosemite, CA on 9 December 1976.
	first date: 28 July 1943			last date: 28 February 1951
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2233	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5487
	Ex USN, BuNo 34597. Served with No. 8 (BR) Squadron on west coast, coded "K". To civil register as CF-FAW, off register by 1976.
	first date: 29 July 1943			last date: 10 March 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2234	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5493
	Ex USN, BuNo 34603. Served with Eastern Air Command and Western Air Command, dates unknown.
	first date: 31 July 1943			last date: 8 July 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2235	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5380
	Ex USN, BuNo 33371. With No. 113 (BR) Squadron in Nova Scotia, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "E".
	first date: 6 August 1943			last date: 17 July 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A damage on 23 June 1945.
2236	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5591
	Ex USN, BuNo 34701. Assigned to Western Air Command. Later to US civil register as N593EW.
	first date: 12 August 1943			last date: 22 September 1952
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2237	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5593
	Ex USN, BuNo 34703. Assigned to Western Air Command.
	first date: 12 August 1943			last date: 8 July 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2238	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5590
	Ex USN, BuNo 34700. Served with Eastern Air Command and Western Air Command, dates unknown.
	first date: 12 August 1943			last date: 8 July 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2239	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5592
	Ex USN, BuNo 34702. No. 145 (BR) Squadron, Eastern Air Command, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Flew this unit's last operational mission, a patrol from Dartmouth on 9 June 1945.
	first date: 17 August 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2240	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5594
	Ex USN, BuNo 34704. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "I". Used to prototype "Red Light" installation.
	first date: 17 August 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2241	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5596
	Ex USN, BuNo 34706. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1943/45. Coded "Z".
	first date: 17 August 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2242	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5597
	Ex USN, BuNo 34707. Served with Eastern Air Command and Western Air Command, dates unknown.
	first date: 18 August 1943			last date: 8 July 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2243	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5595
	Ex USN, BuNo 34705. With No. 8 (BR) Squadron, coded "D".
	first date: 19 August 1943			last date: 7 December 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2244	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5599
	Ex USN, BuNo 34709. Used by No. 8 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island or Patricia Bay, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Coded "D".
	first date: 25 August 1943			last date: 3 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2245	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5696?
	Ex USN, BuNo 34806. Assigned to Eastern Air Command. Later at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Sold to Spartan Aircraft.
	first date: 13 September 1943			last date: 18 March 1957
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2246	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5694
	Ex USN, BuNo 34804. Converted to target tug on 22 June 1948. Sold to Spartan Aircraft. To US civil register as N208S, registered to Skyrider Airfreight, Inc. of Tulsa, OK in 1982.
	first date: 13 September 1943			last date: 18 March 1957
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2247	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5697
	Ex USN, BuNo 34807. Assigned to Western Air Command. Later to US civil register as N151V, owner listed as James McIvor of Miami, FLA.
	first date: 16 September 1943			last date: 11 August 1950
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2248	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5598
	Ex USN, BuNo 34708. With No. 113 (BR) Squadron in Nova Scotia, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "B".
	first date: 18 September 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off
2249	Lockheed-Vega		Ventura	G.R. Mk. V
	V-146	5698?
	Ex USN, BuNo 34808. Assigned to Eastern Air Command.
	first date: 24 September 1943			last date: 22 January 1947
	Taken on strength			Struck off

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Created 11 September 2005. Updated 11 September 2005.