• The Avro Canada CF-103 was a proposed Canadian interceptor, designed by Avro Canada in the early 1950s as a development, and possible replacement of the...
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    The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck (affectionately known as the "Clunk") is a Canadian twinjet interceptor/fighter designed and produced by aircraft manufacturer...
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    The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at...
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  • company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000. Avro Canada was best known for the CF-105 Arrow,...
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    for the cancelled Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner and the Avro Canada CF-103 interceptor project. Canada portal List of active Canadian military aircraft List...
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    United States Air Force (as F-101s), and later sold to Canada. CF-101s replaced the obsolete Avro CF-100 Canuck in the RCAF's all-weather fighter squadrons...
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  • Paul Bernard Dilworth (category Canadian aerospace engineers)
    were developed. He worked on the engine design of the Avro Canada CF-103 (predecessor to the Avro Arrow) for Orenda. In 1952 he created Paul Dilworth &...
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    Canadair CF-104 Starfighter (CF-111, CL-90) is a modified version of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic fighter aircraft built in Canada by Canadair...
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  • (1952–1963) Avro Canada CF-103 (1950–1951) Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow (1953–1959) Velvet Glove AAM (1953–1956) General Purpose Frigate (Canada) Polar 8 Project...
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    Aviation portal Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Avro Canada CF-103 de Havilland Sea Vixen Sud Aviation Vautour IIN Related lists List...
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    The Canadair CF-5 (officially designated the CF-116 Freedom Fighter) is a Canadian licensed-built Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. It is a light, supersonic...
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    The Avro 504 is a single-engine biplane bomber made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during World War I totalled 8...
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    The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the...
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    The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary...
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  • Shackleton Avro Vulcan Avro Athena Avro Ashton Avro Mercury Avro RJ Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner Avro Canada CF-103 Avro Canada CF-105...
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    Golden Centennaires (category Canadian aerobatic teams)
    form the Snowbirds, Canada's current national team. Accompanying the Golden Centennaires were an Avro 504, a CF-104 Starfighter and a CF-101 Voodoo. All of...
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    shepherded Canada's first jet fighter project, the Avro Canada CF-100, to completion. He was also the major force behind the Avro Canada VTOL aircraft...
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    for the Canadian Armed Forces, which needed them to transport high-ranking passengers and freight around Europe. These aircraft received the CF designation...
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    consolidated under Air Command (AIRCOM). In the early 1990s, Canada provided a detachment of CF-18 Hornets for the air defence mission in Operation Desert...
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    Canadair Sabre (category Canada–United States military relations)
    of only Sabre aircraft; however, later it was decided to include the Avro Canada CF-100 aircraft in the defense package to provide a night and all-weather...
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    deployments. On 9 August 1974, Canadian Forces CC-115 Buffalo 115461 was shot down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile, killing all nine CF personnel on board. This...
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    indigenous aircraft design to be produced by de Havilland Canada. The Chipmunk prototype, CF-DIO-X, first flew on 22 May 1946 at Downsview, Toronto, piloted...
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    Wellington Handley Page Halifax Avro Lancaster Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet 425 (Aldridge) Squadron...
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    Canadair CL-44 (category Use Canadian English from November 2021)
    Canada and the United States. The USAF purchase of the CL-44 was complicated by two factors. It came in the aftermath of the cancellation of the Avro...
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    Canadair CT-114 Tutor (category Use Canadian English from November 2021)
    of CF-LTX-X with a CF-104 nose grafted on to demonstrate the use of CF-104/F-104G radar and avionics; no production examples were built.  Canada Royal...
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    Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller-driven, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada. It...
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    that were to be part of Tiger Force were converted to the Avro Lancaster and returned to Canada for training and reorganization as part of a planned Allied...
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    Database". Aviation Safety Network. "Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-8-103 HS-SKI Koh Samui Airport (USM)". Aviation Safety Network. Archived...
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    Canadair CT-133 Silver Star (category Use Canadian English from November 2021)
    (CF s/n 133467) - privately owned in Litchfield Park, Arizona. RCAF s/n 21479 (CF s/n 133479) - privately owned in Bulverde, Texas. RCAF s/n 21504 (CF...
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