- 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
- RAAF Crew with Ventura SB-S
- VPB-135 Crew Prepares for a Mission from Attu Island 5 May 1944
- 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 NZ4518 1943
- Ventura Mk I AE748
- 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 of the United States-Brazil Air Training Unit
- PV-1 Ventura
- PV-1 of the United States-Brazil Air Training Unit 1944
- PV-1 South Pacific
- 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.