Canadian Airplanes: Avro C102 Jetliner

Canadian Warplanes, Jets,

Avro C102 Jetliner

(Avro Canada Photos)

Avro C102 Jetliner, ca 1950.  The Avro C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range turbojet-powered jet airliner built by Avro Canada in 1949.  It was beaten to the air by only 13 days by the de Havilland Comet, thereby becoming the second jet airliner in the world.  The name "Jetliner" was chosen as a shortening of the term "jet airliner", a term which is still in popular usage in Canada and the United States.  The aircraft was considered suitable for busy routes along the US eastern seaboard and garnered intense interest, notably from Howard Hughes who even offered to start production under license.  However continued delays in Avro's all-weather interceptor project, the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck, led to an order to stop working on the project in 1951, with the prototype Jetliner later cut up for scrap.  It was not in service with the RCAF.  (Wikipedia)

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584462)

Avro C102 Jetliner in flight, 24 Oct 1950.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584355)

Avro C102 Jetliner in flight, 11 March 1950.

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