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Canuck's In Foreign Service
January 1958 - The only model to be exported, 53 ex-Royal Canadian Air Force models being sold to the Belgian Air Force, deliveries commencing in December 1957. 14 out of the total order of 53, were flown from the R.C.A.F. Station Uplands, Ottawa, by crews for 428 and 410 Squadrons. They went via Goose Bay, Keflavik, and Marville France, to Beauvechain in Belgium.
United States security regulations prohibited further exports, as some US equipment was fitted.
S/N #'s 18685 - 18738 were delivered to the Belgian Air Force. The following Unit Codes were given upon activation into the B.A.F.
18732: A*X47; 18733: A*X48; 18734: A*X49; 18735: A*X50; 18736: A*X51; 18737: A*X52; 18738: A*X53.