[Sid Guttridge]

Graham,


Thanks for the reply.


The pre-war-supplied Curtiss-Wright CW-19Rs are already accounted for.


It is the wartime deliveries of fighters that are obscure.


The 4 x Seversky “P-35-type” conversions from civilian racers should be treated separately. They were an emergency response to the brief war with Peru in July 1941. They were certainly bought by a US company on behalf of the Ecuadoran Government for conversion to fighters to avoid breaching US neutrality legislation, though it is less clear they were ever delivered.

All the others are mentioned in connection with Lend-Lease.

The CW-21s are in an official list from 1946 of Lend-Lease supplied to Latin America in the war. However, I have seen no supporting evidence for their delivery.

The P-35As are not mentioned in that list, but they are widely mentioned elsewhere in varying numbers. It is, perhaps, possible that they are sometimes mixed in with the "P-35-type" converted racers.

Anyway, the situation remains obscure.

For what it is worth, I supect that an unclear number of P-35As are the real deal, but at the moment there are too many contradictions and possible alternatives to be sure.

Many thanks.