PT-19 A - FUERZA AEREA COLOMBIANA

Mgawa · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:33 pm

Greetings all,

how many samples of PT-19 has been delivered to Columbia and in which unit it serves?

Cheers

Old SAR pilot · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:27 pm

According to Aeroflight, 12 were delivered:

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/america ... -chron.htm

No units, yet, tho... :wink:

Mgawa · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:56 pm

To regret this info from Aeroflight is all I know. Also no image to see more...

M-62A · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:11 pm

Mgawa,
A number of Latin American nations received Fairchild M-62A & Bs, PT-19s, PT-23s and PT-26s, some by direct export sales, some via Lend-Lease funding and some via post war allocations of surplus aircraft.

From my notes..
Colombia
The Fuerza Aerea Colombiana received 12 PT-19A-FAs amongst it's Lend-Lease allocations. The AAF records of some of the following aircraft suggest they were originally intended to be assigned to Chile but deleted or corrected as to Colombia in April 1944. They were almost certainly delivered by ferry pilots, as the entries show they were delivered via San Antonio, (to Texas in May 1944) rather than a port of embarkation such as Newark, NJ. or Long Beach, CA.
Also noted on the AAF cards is that the engines were changed to a 200hp model Ranger and that auxiliary fuel tanks were added.
c/no.; AAF s/no.
T43-7381; 43-33796.
T43-7382; 43-33797.
T43-7383; 43-33798.
T43-7384; 43-33799.
T43-7385; 43-33800.
T43-7386; 43-33801.
T43-7387; 43-33802.
T43-7388; 43-33803.
T43-7389; 43-33804.
T43-7390; 43-33805.
T43-7391; 43-33806.
T43-7392; 43-33807.

I am not aware of any civil register examples or any current survivors in Colombia. An Internet search might just throw up some photographs

Hope this helps, Tony Broadhurst

Mgawa · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:38 am

Very informative post Tony

and hope that every other will agree with me. I hear about the fuel tanks but no image to proof this. To regret even on Internet...

Cheers

Mgawa · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:38 am

To regret this is made on base of extra bad image and errors are possible. Any suggestion or better image?

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