Lockheed Ventura

Lockheed Ventura adalah sebuah pesawat pembom dan patroli Perang Dunia II, yang digunakan oleh Amerika Serikat dan pasukan Persemakmuran Inggris dalam beberapa samaran.

Pesawat ini dikembangkan dari pesawat transportasi Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar, sebagai pengganti pesawat pembom Lockheed Hudson kemudian dalam pelayanan dengan Royal Air Force.

Referensi 

 Andrade, John. U.S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909. Hersham, Surrey, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979. ISBN ISBN 0-904597-22-9.
 Carey, Alan C. PV Ventura / Harpoon Units of World War 2 (Osprey Combat Aircraft 34). Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-383-7.
 Roberts, Michael D., Captain, MSC, USNR (Ret.).Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons, Volume 2: The History of VP, VPB, VP(H) and VP(AM) Squadrons.  Washington, D.C.: Naval Aviation History Office, 2000.
 Scrivner, Charles L. and W.E. Scarborough, Captain USN (ret). Lockheed PV-1 Ventura in Action. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1981. ISBN 0-89747-118-0.
 Stanaway, John C. Vega Ventura: The Operational Story of Lockheed's Lucky Star. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7643-0087-3.
 Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1965-66. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1965.

Pranala luar 

 The aircraft in Lake Washington. 
 USAF Museum B-34 fact sheet
 USAF Museum B-37 fact sheet
 "The Versatile Ventura" June 1945 Popular Science—note: rare photos of loading of various weapon loads
 "2000 Mile Navy Bomber" Popular Mechanics, November 1945, p. 10.
 Ralls Clotfelter, 2003, "PV-1 Ventura in the Pacific – Lockheed's forgotten warbird"(archive.org copy of the original as of 3 April 2007 )
 Encyclopedia of American Aircraft 
 US Navy Patrol Squadrons
 PBS Nova program about "Bomber 31"
 Web site about RNZAF use
 Ventura Memorial Flight Association (VMFA) 
 Alberta Aviation Museum
 American Military Heritage Foundation (AMHF)
 Lockheed Twins Site - civil Ventura conversions 
 1946 manual AN 01-55ED-1 Pilots Handbook for Navy Model PV-2 PV-2C PV-2D Airplanes
 Alan C. Carey author of PV Ventura and Harpoon Units
 Registry Of Lockheed PV-1 Ventura survivors

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