Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers RCAF 1500 to 1549 Detailed List

Photograph courtesy of the Canadian Aviation Museum, Ottawa

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	Designer	Manufacturer	basic designation	variant or model	name
	company designation	company number
1500	Beechcraft		Expeditor	Mk. 3N
	D-18S	CA 101
	Used at RCAF Station Winnipeg, Manitoba. Later became Instructional Airframe A 675. Transferred to Canadian Department of Transport.
	first date: 21 December 1951			last date: 9 April 1959
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1501	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category C damage on 3 March 1944, while serving at No. 2 Flying Instructors School at Pearce, Alberta.
	first date: 8 May 1939			last date: 15 May 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1502	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category C damage on 20 June 1939, at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Later became Instructional Airframe A 53 on 9 March 1940.
	first date: 23 May 1939			last date: 14 February 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1503	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Ottawa. Category A damage, details unknown.
	first date: 3 June 1939			last date: 15 September 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1504	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category C damage on 5 April 1940, at Camp Borden, Ontario.
	first date: 18 June 1939			last date: 23 January 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1505	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Classified as Instructional Airframe A 137 on 5 August 1941. Had 512:55 hours airframe time then.
	first date: 25 June 1939			last date: 14 February 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1506	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category C damage on 7 March 1940, at Camp Borden, Ontario.
	first date: 4 July 1939			last date: 23 January 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1507	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Used at No. 36 Service Flying Training School, at Penhold, Alberta.
	first date: 4 July 1939			last date: 23 January 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1508	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category A crash on 29 January 1942, at RCAF Station Penhold, Alberta.
	first date: 9 July 1939			last date: 28 November 1942
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1509	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category A crash at Trenton on 29 November 1939. Appears to be first RCAF Oxford loss.
	first date: 15 July 1939			last date: 12 March 1940
	Taken on charge			Struck off
1510	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category C damage on 3 September 1941 at Trenton, when it struck Harvard 2971.
	first date: 22 July 1939			last date: 14 February 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1511	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario.
	first date: 24 July 1939			last date: 15 May 1940
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A crash at Camp Borden on 1 March 1940.
1512	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Category C damage at Camp Borden, Ontario on 22 September 1939.
	first date: 28 July 1939			last date: 10 June 1943
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1513	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category D damage at Trenton, Ontario on 2 August 1939.
	first date: 31 July 1939			last date: 19 February 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1514	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Category C damage at Picton, Ontario on 20 October 1941. Probably based at Trenton at that time.
	first date: 8 August 1939			last date: 17 May 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1515	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category C damage on 25 April 1942 at RCAF Station Penhold, Alberta.
	first date: 9 August 1939			last date: 14 August 1943
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1516	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Category C damage on 5 April 1940, at Camp Borden, Ontario.
	first date: 11 August 1939			last date: 2 October 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1517	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Used at RCAF Stations Camp Borden and Trenton, Ontario.
	first date: 15 August 1939			last date: 26 August 1940
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1518	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Had 1734:00 airframe time when struck off.
	first date: 18 August 1939			last date: 19 February 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1519	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Used at No. 35 Service Flying Training School at North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and at No. 32 SFTS at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
	first date: 18 August 1939			last date: 23 January 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1520	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category B damage on 28 October 1941, at Picton, Ontario.
	first date: 31 August 1939			last date: 23 January 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1521	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Category C damage on 9 January 1942, at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario.
	first date: 10 September 1939			last date: 19 February 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1522	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Category C damage on 19 March 1940.
	first date: 11 September 1939			last date: 16 August 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1523	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Category B damage on 29 May 1942, while serving at No. 34 Service Flying Training School at Medicine Hat, Alberta.
	first date: 18 September 1939			last date: 2 June 1943
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1524	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Used at No. 34 Service Flying Training School at Medicine Hat, Alberta.
	first date: 18 September 1939			last date: 23 January 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1525	Airspeed		Oxford	Mk. I
	A.S.10
	Assembled at Camp Borden, Ontario. Category C damage on 22 February 1942 at RCAF Station Rocklciffe, Ontario.
	first date: 9 November 1939			last date: 12 February 1943
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1526	Lockheed		Electra
	Model L-10A	1112
	Ex Trans Canada Airlines CF-TCA. Operated by No. 12 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. Visited Camp Borden, Ontario on 10 January 1940, while with this squadron. Also used by Flying Instructors School, Camp Borden, dates unknown. Returned to civil register post war as CF-BTD, later N79237. To Museum of Science and Technology in 1970s.
	first date: 23 October 1939			last date: 16 January 1946
	Purchased from TCA.			Struck off, later sold
1527	Lockheed		Electra
	Model L-10A	1113
	Ex Trans Canada Airlines CF-TCB. Reported scrapped by RCAF, but displayed post war in Ottawa. Is this another company number, in CF-TCB markings?
	first date: 23 October 1939			last date: 17 August 1944
	Purchased from TCA			Reported written off and scrapped.
1528	Lockheed		Electra
	Model L-10A	1064
	Ex Trans Canada Airlines CF-BAF. Used at flying Instructors School, RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Returned to civil register post was as CF-HED.
	first date: 23 October 1939			last date: 2 May 1946
	Purchased from TCA			Struck off, later sold.
1529	Lockheed		Electra
	Model L-10A	1063
	Ex Trans Canada Airlines CF-AZY. Reported with Thunder Bay Airlines post war. Later to US register as NC97227.
	first date: 23 October 1939			last date: 2 May 1946
	Purchased from TCA			Struck off and sold
1530	Beechcraft		Expeditor
	18D	267
	Had been private aircraft of J. D. Eaton, CF-BMU.
	first date: 14 November 1939			last date: 7 March 1945
	Donated by department store millionaire J. D. Eaton			Struck off, fate unknown.
1531	Lockheed		Electra Junior
	Model L-12A	1240
	Purchased second hand in US, had been NC18946. To Maritime Central Airways when sold, as CF-BXS.
	first date: 15 July 1941			last date: 18 November 1944
	Taken on strength			Struck off, later sold
1532	Beechcraft		Expeditor	Mk. 3TM
	D-18S	CA 132
	Category A crash on 3 February 1954, while serving with No. 3 (F) Wing in Germany.
	first date: 24 March 1952			last date: 5 March 1954
	Taken on strength			Written off, after crash, see comments.
1533	Beechcraft		Expeditor	Mk. 3TM
	D-18S	CA 133
	Operated in Europe in 1966, in No. 4 (F) Wing, No. 1 Air Division markings. Later to US civil register as N1533Z.
	first date: 24 March 1954			last date:
	Taken on strength
1534	Beechcraft		Expeditor	Mk. 3TM
	D-18S	CA 134
	Served with No. 412 (T) Squadron at RCAF Stations Uplands and / or Rockcliffe. Carried ICAO registration VC-AON on wings, marked as "AO*N" on fuselage. Also served with No. 438 Squadron (Auxiliary) at St. Hubert, PQ, lates 1950s to early 1960s. Still active at Integration.
	first date: 25 March 1952			last date:
	Taken on strength
1535	Beechcraft		Expeditor	Mk. 3TM
	D-18S	CA 135
	Still active at Integration.
	first date: 9 January 1952			last date:
	Taken on strength
1536	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9477. Used for prototype TT conversion in Canada.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1537	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9306. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 29 July 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1538	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9294. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 29 July 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1539	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9432. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 5 August 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1540	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9446. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 5 August 1942.  Reported in fatal crash on 6 January 1943, at No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, Fingal, Ontario (on plaque on Cenotaph in Fingal).
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1541	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9509. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 5 August 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1542	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9518. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 29 July 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1543	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9719. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 26 June 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1544	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9732. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 26 June 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1545	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9746. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 26 June 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 24 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1546	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9747. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 26 June 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 20 February 1943
	Taken on strength			Struck off, after Category A crash on 5 January 1943
1547	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9750. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 26 June 1942.
	first date: 20 January 1942			last date: 25 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1548	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9653. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 29 July 1942.
	first date: 27 January 1942			last date: 25 March 1946
	Taken on strength			Struck off
1549	Westland	built in UK	Lysander	Mk. III TT
	Ex RAF V9480. Converted to Target Tug in Canada, completed 10 October 1942.
	first date: 27 January 1942			last date: 7 November 1945
	Taken on strength			Struck off.

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