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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:Super Ventura
    Last Military Serial:2244 RCAF
    Construction Number:237-5599
    Last Civil Registration:YV-183CP
    Compressed ID:Howard Super Ventura sn 2244 RCAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museo Aeroespacial Colombiano (MAECO) / Colombian AF Museum, Base Aerea Brigadier General Camilo Daza, Bogota, Distrito Capital

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PV-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 34709.

    From 25 August 1943 to 3 October 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 2244.

    April 1954

    To Fruehauf Trailer Company with new c/r N1206.

    September 1956

    To Howard Aero Service Inc keeping c/r N1206.

    Converted to a Super Ventura by Howard.

    1961

    To Firestone Tire and Rubber Co with new c/r N5034F.

    18 November 1968

    To University of Southern California with new c/r N1970H.

    12 November 1969

    To Rowan Drilling Co. Inc with new c/r N197RD.

    July 1974

    To Lamb Industries Inc with new c/r N100LR.

    January 1975

    To B. B. McCormick (and) Sons Inc keeping c/r N100LR.

    1977

    To George H Bailey Company Inc, Fort Wayne, IN with new c/r N400MC.

    18 November 1977

    Civil registration, N400MC, cancelled.
    Exported to Venezuela.

    19 November 1977

    To unknown owner with c/r YV-183CP.

    Circa 1979

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Opa Locka, Florida.

    November 1979


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: YV-183CP - Howard 400 - Opa Locka - It was later placed on display at the Colombian Air Force museum in fake markings representing the Presidential Lodestar FAC654.

    By February 1990

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at the Santa Marta-Simon Boliver airport, Columbia b.

    1992

    Transferred to Bogota.

    11 November 1992


    Photographer: Peter Garwood
    Notes: At Bogota, Colombia

    By 15 March 1997

    In open storage at Eldorado.

    Based at Museo Aeroespacial Colombiano (MAECO)/Colombian AF Museum, Base Aerea Brigadier General Camilo Daza, Bogota, Distrito Capital.
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    Markings Applied: FAC654
    Painted to represent FAC654 Colombian AF.

    2011


    Photographer: David Osborn
    Notes: At Museo Aeroespacial Colombiano (MAECO) / Colombian AF Museumat Bogata El Dorado International Airport

    By 24 February 2016


    Photographer: DUNCAN KIRK
    Notes: The Colombian AF museum is being relocated to Briceno outside of Bogota and will open in 2017. I managed to get a sneak preview as they re-assemble aircraft.
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