Avro Canada C102 Jetliner  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jetliner.jpg Role Jet airliner National origin Canada
Manufacturer Avro Canada First flight 10 August 1949
Primary user Trans Canada Airlines (intended) Number built one
(second prototype cancelled while in production, and scrapped)
The Avro C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range 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. In Canada and the United
States the term "Jetliner" has often been used to refer to any
jet airliner since then. 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 CF-100, led to
an order to stop working on the project