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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Canuck Avro Canada CF-103 Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Avro Canada TS-140 Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar Avro Canada CF-103 (mock-up only) Avro Canada Project...
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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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List of cancelled military projects (section Canada)
(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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List of aircraft (An–Az) (section Avro Canada)
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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John Carver Meadows Frost (section Avro Canada)
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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CFB Greenwood (redirect from Canadian Forces Base Greenwood)
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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