Avro Canada

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AV Roe Canada Ltd
legal form Corporation
founding 1945
resolution 1962
Seat Toronto , Ontario , CanadaCanadaCanada 
Number of employees 50,000 (1958)
Branch Aircraft construction

Avro Canada , in full name AV Roe Canada Ltd. was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer . The company was founded in July 1945 as a 100% subsidiary of the British manufacturer Avro , after the latter had bought the Canadian aircraft manufacturer Victory Aircraft . Over the years, the company has been active in several sectors. In 1962 Avro Canada's British parent company was merged into the Hawker Siddeley Group, so that Avro disappeared as a company. Hawker-Siddeley then sold almost all of its Canada business.

Aircraft division

CF-100 Canuck
VZ-9AV Avrocar

This division ( Avro Aircraft ) was the only one when Avro Canada was founded. The factories were in Malton, not far from Toronto , Ontario .

After the war production of aircraft was stopped, the main business of this division was now in the repair and maintenance of aircraft. The decision was quickly made to build new types of aircraft with jet propulsion . Potential buyers of the aircraft were the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) or Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) , the forerunner of today's Air Canada .

Avro Canada therefore began developing the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck military aircraft , an all-weather interceptor , in 1946 . Although the construction of the hunter was largely completed in the following year, it could not be built until the end of 1948 due to a lack of production facilities. The Canuck matured until 1952, the year it was put into service with the RCAF . The hunter was finally retired in 1981.

In parallel, Avro Canada developed a jet-powered civil aircraft , the Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner . However, this development project had to be abandoned in favor of the further development of the Canuck . In 1956, the aircraft's only prototype was scrapped.

Even before the Canuck was officially commissioned , it became clear that there was a need for an even more powerful fighter aircraft. This led to a number of design studies of aircraft types with delta wings. In May 1952, the Avro Canada CF-103 was finally proposed. However, no orders were received for this aircraft, so all that was left was to build a test model .

In July 1953, the Canadian Department of Defense commissioned Avro Canada to develop a fighter specifically tailored to the needs of the RCAF . This order led to the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow , which conceptually could fall back on the studies for the Avro Canada CF-103, but was nevertheless larger. A change of government in February 1959 led to the abrupt end of this project.

In 1958, Avro Canada began research and development on another project, which became known as the Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar . It was an airplane that looked similar in shape to a flying saucer . However, the two prototypes of the Avrocar could not meet expectations, so that this project had to be discontinued in December 1961.

Engine division

In May 1946, Avro Canada acquired Turbo Research Ltd. , which was originally busy with tests of jet engines of the RCAF . The location of this division was in Nobel, Ontario. At that time, the TR.4 Chinook (first tested in March 1948) and TR.5 Orenda (first tested in February 1949) engines were under development. The engine was so successful that the name Orenda Engines was later used for this division . Orenda is still in the market today as a brand.

Other branches

In the course of time, further large divisions were added as part of diversification. The main field of business remained aviation.

literature

  • Campagna, Palmiro. Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed, Third Paperback Edition. Toronto: Stoddart, 1998. ISBN 0-7737-5990-5 .
  • Campagna, Palmiro. Requiem for a Giant: AV Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2003. ISBN 1-55002-438-8 .
  • Dow, James. The Arrow. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-88862-282-1 .
  • Floyd, Jim. The Avro Canada C102 Jetliner. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1986. ISBN 0-919783-66-X .
  • Gainor, Chris. Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race. Burlington, Ontario: Apogee, 2001. ISBN 1-896522-83-1 .
  • Page, Ron, Richard Organ, Don Watson and Les Wilkinson (The "Arrowheads"). Avro Arrow: The Story of the Avro Arrow from its Evolution to its Extinction. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1979, reprinted Stoddart, 2004. ISBN 1-55046-047-1 .
  • Park, Libby and Frank Park. Anatomy of Big Business. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1973. ISBN 978-0-88862-040-8 .
  • Peden, Murray. Fall of an Arrow. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1987. ISBN 0-7737-5105-X .
  • Shaw, EK There Never Was an Arrow. Toronto: Steel Rail Educational Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0-88791-025-4 .
  • Stewart, Greig. Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow. Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1998. ISBN 0-07-560102-8 .
  • Stewart, Greig. Shutting Down the National Dream: AV Roe and the Tragedy of the Avro Arrow. Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1991. ISBN 0-07-551119-3 .
  • Whitcomb, Randall. Avro Aircraft and Cold War Aviation. St. Catharine's, Ontario: Vanwell, 2002. ISBN 1-55125-082-9 .
  • Whitcomb, Randall. Cold War Tech War. The Politics Of America's Air Defense. Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-894959-75-9 .
  • Zuk, Bill. The Avro Arrow Story: The Impossible Dream. Calgary: Altitude Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-55439-703-0 .
  • Zuk, Bill. Avrocar: Canada's Flying Saucer: The Story of Avro Canada's Secret Projects. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55046-359-4 .
  • Zuuring, Peter. The Arrow Scrapbook. Kingston, Ontario: Arrow Alliance Press, 1999. ISBN 1-55056-690-3 .
  • Zuuring, Peter. Iroquois rollout. Kingston, Ontario: Arrow Alliance Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55056-906-6 .

Web links

Commons : Avro Canada  - Collection of Images
Aircraft types from the manufacturer Avro Canada


CF-100 • C102 • CF-103 • CF-105 • TS-140 • VZ-9AV