Taken on strength 23 September 1939 ex RAF serial N7344. Crashed after a take-off engine failure on 15 July 1940. DND photo.

It was struck off charge by the RCAF 02-Feb-1945, and the same month it was civil registered in Colombia as C-81. DND photo.

The first Hudson for the RAF delivered in February 1939. It was a massive advance over the Avro Anson in the coastal patrol role. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

These new Hudsons, RAF serials N7345 and N7347, were described as 'Flying Fortress airplanes' by the Salt Lake Tribune. To Canada as 760 and 762, taken on charge at RCAF Ottawa on 15 and 16 September 1939. 760 lost at sea on 28 January 1943 while operated by No 145 Sqn based at Torbay, Newfoundland. Crashed in vicinity of convoy while on escort mission, no survivors. Photo from: Salt Lake Tribune / Utah State History

'Bombers for Britain. Glendale became a staging area for the shipment of Lockheed Hudsons. They were flown out of Burbank after testing and landed at Glendale for processing by Babb Co as sea cargo.' This early Hudson is in full British markings - N7220 is its RAF serial. This airframe was eventually converted into a VIP transport. It was used by the Dutch Communication Flight and crashed at Evere, Belgium in October 1944. Photo by: Ralph Johnston / Glendale Public Library