Lockheed Ventura - Operators

Operators

Australia

• Royal Australian Air Force 75 aircraft, 1943-1946

• • No. 13 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 452 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 459 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 464 Squadron RAAF

Brazil

• Brazilian Air Force 20 aircraft 1944-1956
  • 1st Medium Bomber Group

Canada

• Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 286 aircraft 1943-1957
  • Operational Squadrons of the Home War Establishment (HWE):

• • No. 8 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 113 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 115 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 145 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 149 Squadron RCAF

France

• French Navy - Aeronavale 1944-1961
  • Flotille 6F (PV-1 only, from 1944 to 1947)
  • Escadrille 11S (PV-1 from 1947 to 1953 and six PV-2s from 1953 to 1960) for transport duty only.

Japan

• Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 17 aircraft from 1955 to 1960
  • Kanoya Flying Training Wing

Netherlands

• Dutch Naval Aviation Service 18 aircraft from 1951 to 1955

New Zealand

• New Zealand Air Force 143 aircraft from 1943 to 1948

• • No. 1 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 2 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 3 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 4 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 8 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 9 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 487 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 1 (B) OTU
  • No. 14 Servicing Unit

Portugal

• Portuguese Air Force 42 aircraft from 1954 to 1974

South Africa to 1960

• South African Air Force

• • 17 Squadron SAAF
  • 22 Squadron SAAF
  • 23 Squadron SAAF
  • 25 Squadron SAAF
  • 27 Squadron SAAF
  • 29 Squadron SAAF
  • 60 Squadron SAAF

United Kingdom

• Royal Air Force

• • No. 13 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command)
  • No. 21 Squadron RAF
  • No. 299 Squadron RAF
  • No. 500 Squadron RAF
  • No. 519 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command)
  • No. 521 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command)
  • No. 624 Squadron RAF
  • No. 34 OTU, RAF, operated from Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick

United States

• United States Marine Corps
  • VMF(N)-531
• United States Navy

• • VB/VPB-125
  • VB/VPB-126
  • VB/VPB-127
  • VB/VPB-128
  • VB/VPB-129
  • VB/VPB-130
  • VB/VPB-131
  • VB/VPB-132
  • VB/VPB-133
  • VB/VPB-134
  • VB/VPB-135
  • VB/VPB-136
  • VB/VPB-137
  • VB/VPB-138
  • VB/VPB-139
  • VB/VPB-140
  • VB/VPB-141
  • VB/VPB-142
  • VB/VPB-143
  • VB/VPB-144
  • VB/VPB-145
  • VB/VPB-146
  • VB/VPB-147
  • VB/VPB-148
  • VB/VPB-149
  • VB/VPB-150
  • VB/VPB-151
  • VB/VPB-152
  • VB/VPB-153
  • VB/VPB-200
  • VD-2