Orenda Engines

Orenda Engines was a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer and parts supplier that, as part of the Avro Canada conglomerate, produced military jet engines from the 1950s through the 1970s and was Canada's primary engine supplier and repair company. Its roots lie in Turbo Research, a crown corporation formed in 1944 and sold to Avro Canada in 1946, whose Orenda turbojet, first run in February 1949, powered the CF-100 Canuck and later versions of the Canadair Sabre; the Iroquois engine it built for the CF-105 Arrow was cancelled with the Arrow in 1959. A 1955 reorganization created Orenda Engines as a company, and it survived the end of Avro Canada through engine overhaul and licensed production of General Electric J79 and J85 engines. Magellan Aerospace later bought it and renamed it Orenda Aerospace.