Avro Canada C102 Jetliner

The Avro Canada C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range jet airliner built by Avro Canada at Malton, Ontario, and the second purpose-built jet airliner to fly anywhere in the world. It grew out of a 1946 requirement from Trans-Canada Airlines for a twin-engined aircraft seating at least 36 passengers over 1,200 miles, but Avro settled on four Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojets when the Avon engine could not be certified in time. The Jetliner made its first flight on 10 August 1949, only thirteen days after the de Havilland Comet, and on 18 April 1950 it carried the first jet airmail from Toronto to New York. Interest from airlines and from Howard Hughes never turned into orders, and in 1951 the minister C. D. Howe ordered Avro to concentrate on the CF-100 fighter. The single completed prototype kept flying until December 1956 and was then cut up for scrap, although its nose section survives in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.