Avro Canada

Avro Canada, officially A. V. Roe Canada Limited, was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company that existed from 1945 to 1962. It began when the UK-based Hawker Siddeley bought the Victory Aircraft plant at Malton, Ontario, from the Canadian government in 1945 and set up A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. as the wholly owned Canadian branch of A.V. Roe and Company. Within thirteen years it became the third-largest company in Canada, with over 50,000 employees across a group of 44 companies that mined coal, made steel and rolling stock and built aircraft and engines, and from 1954 it was a holding company over two aviation subsidiaries, Avro Aircraft and Orenda Engines. It was best known for the CF-100 Canuck interceptor, the C102 Jetliner, which first flew in August 1949, and the CF-105 Arrow, and it ceased operations in 1962 after the Arrow was cancelled.