B-34 41-38206 M-127, Midland Army Airfield, Texas
B-34 Ventura crashed
US Ventura II 4527
Gunner carries .50 caliber machine gun ammo
Ventura II AJ362
PV-1 Ventura in flight 1943
Workmen perform final checks on a PV-1 Burbank
Ventura at Attu Island March 1944
VPB-135 PV-1 Ventura and Crew Gear Up at Attu Island 5 May 1944
Ventura BuNo 48891 and Crew at Attu Island 5 May 1944
VPB-135 Crew Prepares for a Mission from Attu Island 5 May 1944
RAAF Crew with Ventura SB-S
Ventura SB-O Flight Crew Raaf 464 Sqn Methwold
21 Squadron SAAF Zwartkop Air Station
Ventura roll out
Ventura s/n 4139
Ventura refueling
Ventura Bombing Up
Ventura Mk I Bombing Up
Ventura RAF
Ventura RAF
Ventura of No 464 Squadron RAAF Attacking Flushing Holland 1943
RNZAF Ventura NZ4638 2 Squadron Green Island
Ventura NZ4632
Ventura NZ4625 2 Squadron taxiing in the dispersal area at Green Island
Ventura Mk I AE748
Ventura NZ4518 1943
Ventura Mk I AE661
Ventura Mk I AE658
Ventura Mk I AE658
Ventura Mk I AE658 Burbank 1941
Ventura Mk I AE658
Ventura Mk I AE658
Ventura Mk I AE658
Ventura Mk I AE658 1st Aircraft Built at Lockheed Vega Plant 1941
Ventura Mk I AE658
Ventura JT894 521 Sqn
Ventura May 1943
Ventura JT894
Ventura interior RAF
Ventura interior
Ventura GR Mk V FN957, May 1943
Ventura interior
Ventura GR Mk V FN957, May 1943
Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank
Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank
ground crew loading bombs onto a Ventura bomb bay
Ventura BOMBED UP
Ventura and crew 464 Sqn 1943
Ventura AE956
Ventura AE956
Ventura AE854 SB-J RAAF 1943
Ventura 464 Squadron Methwold 1942
Ventura AE774 YH-V
Ventura 464 Sqn
Ventura 1943
Ventura 1943
Ventura 1943
Venturas Station Whenuapai 1943
Venturas at Amchikta Island Aleutians December 1943
RAF Ventura YH-A 1943
No. 21 Squadron RAF
No. 21 Squadron RAF
Venturas of No. 21 Squadron RAF
Venturas of No. 21 Squadron RAF
Venturas of No. 21 Squadron RAF
Venturas of No. 21 Squadron RAF in flight
Soviet PV-1
RNZAF PV Emirau 1944
PV Ventura
Ventura of VB-136 Taking Off from an Aleutian Airfield 1944
PV Ventura
PV Ventura
PV Ventura
PV Ventura
PV Ventura
PV Ventura
PV-1 Ventura 10
RAF Ventura GR V
PV RAF
Harpoon Iwo Jima April 1945
PV April 17 1945
PV Alaska
Venturas Alameda California January 1943
Ventura 1 Sqn RNZAF 1943
Harpoon “24” waiting for action against the Kuril Islands 9 April 1945
PV-2 Harpoon Patuxent River September 22 1944
PV-2 Harpoon Patuxent River September 22, 1944
PV-2 Harpoon Patuxent River September 22 1944
PV-2 Harpoon Patuxent River September 22 1944
Harpoon in US Navy three-tone camouflage
PV-2 Harpoon
PV-2 Harpoon
PV-2 Harpoon
PV-2 Harpoon
PV-2 fuel tank and rockets on launchers
PV-2 April 4, 1945
Harpoon fitted with mounts for HVAR rockets beneath the wing
PV-2 April 4, 1945
PV-2 April 4 1945
Harpoons of the of the VPB-139
PV-2 April 17, 1945
PV-2 April 10, 1945
PV-2 April 10, 1945
PV-2 1800 lb torpedo
PV-2 1800 lb torpedo
PV-2
PV-1 Ventura Wreck at Tacloban Leyte November 1944
USS Kasaan Bay CVE-69 at Alameda January 1944
PV-1 Ventura Patrol Bombers 1943
Ventura on Deck of USS Kasaan Bay January 1944
PV-1 Ventura on Deck of USS Kasaan Bay January 1944
PV-1 Ventura in flight in late 1943
PV-1 Ventura Formation Off Florida Coast 1943
PV-1 Ventura Cockpit NAS Opa Locka 1943
Ventura Aboard USS Kasaan Bay CVE-69 January 1944
PV-1 Ventura
PV-1 Ventura
PV-1 Ventura
PV-1 Ventura
PV-1 of the United States-Brazil Air Training Unit
PV-1 South Pacific
PV-1 of the United States-Brazil Air Training Unit 1944
North Pacific 1945
PV-1 Munda Strip New Georgia 1943
PV-1 from VB-125-B-6
PV-1 from VB-125-B-6
PV-1 FAW-4 over Adak Island Aleutians
PV-1 FAW-4 on Attu Island After Blizzard 20 November 1943
PV-1 FAW-4 Crash Landing Amchitka
PV-1 FAW-4 Amchikta Island
PV-1 FAW-4 Amchikta Island Aleutians
PV-1 FAW-4 Adak Island Aleutians
PV-1 Dropping Training Torpedo near NAS Banana River June 1943
PV-1 Bougainville 1st MAW 1944
PV-1 at Vega Aircraft Plant in Burbank
PV-1 1944
PBY and PV-1 Venturas FAW-4 on Attu Island 1943
Officers pictured next to a PV-1 Ventura “19” Alaska 1944
Navy PV-1 Ventura Patrol Bomber in Flight
Lockheed Ventura Leaving Factory 1941
Lockheed B-34
Lockheed B-34
Locheed Ventura AE748
Interior View of Lockheed PV-1 Ventura NAS Opa Locka 1943
Fueling VB-135 PV-1 Venturas Attu Island 5may1944
Fleet Air Wing 4 Dog Big Mooch Completes 4 Missions over Japan 1944
Crew members of VPB-135 pose by their PV at their Aleutian base after raid on Japanese bases in the Kuriles 1944
Brazilian Air Force Receives PV-1 Ventura
B-37 Lexington
B-34 Ventura II on Airfield
B-34 Ventura
B-34 4426
In February 1940, the British Purchase Mission in the US proposed to Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to develop a new patrol aircraft for Coastal Command coastal defense aviation based on the Model 18 Lodestar, ordering 25 aircraft immediately. The company had extensive experience with this kind of modernization. In 1938, a Hudson patrol aircraft was developed based on the Super Electra passenger plane, subsequently built in large numbers and widely used during World War II. So work began on the design of a new aircraft designated Model 39.A little trouble was caused by the English demand for maximum unification of the Model 39 with the Hudson aircraft, but this was to accelerate the implementation into production.
High-powered Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engines were installed on the aircraft, as well as new wide-bladed propellers, most favorable for low- and medium-altitude flight, where naval patrol aircraft mostly operated. The aircraft received a strong defensive armament consisting of 8 7.69 mm cal. machine guns: 2 movable in the nose section of the fuselage in the navigator’s station, an additional 2 non-movable above it, 2 movable in the Boulton-Paul gunner’s turret on the back of the fuselage and 2 on the gunner’s station in a specially formed protrusion under the tail section of the fuselage. The aircraft carried 1800 kg of bombs or depth charges. Compared with the Hudson aircraft, the new plane, which was named Ventura in the UK, had a longer range and considerably higher speed. In May 1940, the British had already placed an order for 300 exemplars of the Ventura Mk.I version.