Howard Super Ventura

08/22/2022. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This aircraft was built as a Lockheed Model 237-27-01 PV-1 Ventura by Lockheed's subsidiary Vega. Ordered by the USN under Bu.No. 33327, when completed it was transferred factory fresh to the RCAF on June 15, 1943. It served with No. 149 (BR) Squadron at Annette Island, Alaska. The aircraft was struck off charge on January 22, 1947 and transferred to the War Assets Corporation and sold in 1948.

The civil history of the aircraft:

Lionel Verreault, 1948
W.C. Siple, Siple Aircraft Ltd. at St. Johns (presently known as Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Quebec, June 22, 1948
Hunter C. Moody, Decatur Aviation Co, Decatur, Illinois, USA, registered N64004, July 30, 1948
     Converted to executive configuration, completed October 29, 1950, by Aero Trades Inc.,
     MacArthur Airport, New York
Triangle Conduit & Cable, New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 1950
Howard Aero Service, San Antonio, Texas, May 15, 1956
Northern Pump Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 1957, reregistered N234P, May 9, 1958
     Converted to Howard Super Ventura, completed on July 7, 1958, later converted to Howard 350
North Star Sales & Leasing, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, February 2, 1979
Summit Quarries Inc, Summit Station, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1980
Pacific Northwest Lumber, Spokane, Washington, November 1983
     Seized by police, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, October 8, 1984
City of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, October 1984
Doan Helicopter Inc, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, October 1986
     Offered for sale, auctioned October 30, 1992
Jim Gregory, October 30, 1992
Ben Cart, Townsend, Georgia
James A. McNally, Belthesda, Maryland, May 1994
     Damaged by fire in starboard wing after fuel leak on ground, October 1994
Patrick Taylor, Taylor Energy Co., New Orleans-Lakefront, Louisiana, July 12, 1995
     Damaged during Hurricane Katrina, Lakefront, August 2005
Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California, February 2008, registration cancelled September 22, 2008
     Aircraft moved by road to Irvine, 2008, stored partly disassembled in hangar at Orange County Great
     Park (on site of former MCAS El Toro), for display in prospected Heritage and Aviation Museum at
     Orange County Great Park.

Read the type remarks on page 255.