Editing Avro Canada (section)

==Corporate demise==
In 1962, [[Hawker Siddeley]] dissolved A.V. Roe Canada and transferred all A.V. Roe Canada assets to its newly formed subsidiary [[Hawker Siddeley Canada]]. Avro Aircraft was closed.

Hawker Siddeley Canada, at that time, among its diverse holdings, included major manufacturing units:
* [[Canadian Car and Foundry]] (CC&F)
* [[Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation]] (DOSCO)
* [[Orenda Engines]]

The former Avro aircraft factory in Malton was sold to [[de Havilland Canada]] in the same year.<ref name="Frontiers"/> This facility  located on the north end of [[Toronto Pearson International Airport]] (the village of Malton was incorporated into the [[Mississauga|City of Mississauga]] in 1974), was subsequently owned and operated by several others:
* [[Douglas Aircraft]] of Canada (1963–1967): manufacturer of the aircraft wings and tail sections (empennage) for the [[Douglas DC-9]];<ref name="Frontiers"/>
* [[McDonnell-Douglas]] Canada (1967–1997):  manufacturer of aircraft wings and related components for the [[McDonnell Douglas KC-10|KC-10]] and [[McDonnell Douglas MD-11|MD-11]], [[McDonnell Douglas MD-80|MD-80]] wings, empennage and cabin floors, and [[McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet]] side panels and pylons;<ref name="Frontiers"/>
* [[Boeing|Boeing Toronto]] (1997–2005):  manufacturer of [[Boeing 717]] wings, parts for the [[Delta (rocket family)|Delta rocket]], the [[Boeing C-17 Globemaster III|Boeing C-17]] transport and the [[Boeing 737]] jetliner.<ref name="Frontiers"/>
By the late 1990s, Hawker Siddeley Canada had been diminished into a holding company after divesting itself of almost everything other than its pension fund.  One of Hawkery Siddeley Canada's last aerospace concerns the aircraft gas turbine repair and overhaul company Standard Aero of Winnipeg was spun off to British Tire and Rubber at the time (it is now part of Dubai Aerospace Enterprises, an international corporation with interests in aircraft leasing, MRO and aviation IT solutions).

DOSCO's assets were nationalized to become [[Cape Breton Development Corporation|DEVCO]] and [[Sydney Steel Corporation|SYSCO]]. CC&F closed its operations and the plants demolished. CC&F's Thunder Bay plant, after several changes of ownership, is now part of [[Bombardier Aerospace]].

[[Orenda Aerospace]], as part of the Magellan Aerospace Corporation, is the only remaining original company from the A.V. Roe empire, although greatly diminished in both the size and scope of its operations.

In mid-2005, with the completion of the last shipset of Boeing 717 wings, [[The Boeing Company]] discontinued its operations at the former Avro plant.<ref name="Frontiers">Lombardi, Mike and Larry Merritt. [http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2005/june/i_history.html "Toronto's Long History of Aerospace Achievement."] ''Boeing Frontiers Magazine'' (online), Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2005. Retrieved: 15 April 2009.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Referring to the article's last paragraph: "Note: ... On August 12, 2005 the last few CAW [union] Local 1967 represented employees, walked out the plant gates for the last time."<ref>Bedel, Glenn. [http://www.cawlocal.ca/1967/history.asp "History: The Life and Near–Death of the Aircraft Industry in Malton."] ''CAW Local 1967 website'', 12 August 2005. Retrieved: 15 April 2009.</ref>|group=N}}

The Malton plant, which had comprised several very large buildings and hangar-like structures, was demolished in progressive stages from 2004 onwards. The approximate {{convert|113|acre}} of land that the plant resided on at the time of its closure was sold to the [[Greater Toronto Airports Authority]] (owner of the Toronto Pearson International Airport) and the title was transferred after the property site had completed its [[environmental remediation|environmental soil remediation]].<ref name="BC">[http://www.boeing.com/ssg/news/2006/q2/060530c_nr.html "News Release: Boeing Announces Sale of Surplus Property Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada."] ''Boeing Shared Services website'', 30 May 2006. Retrieved: 15 April 2009.</ref>

Some of the brickwork of the site's historic main "C" assembly building, next to the high-bay doors that the Arrow, Jetliner, CF-100 and thousands of other aircraft and major assemblies emerged from, was retained by the former [[Canadian Air and Space Museum]] in [[Downsview, Toronto]], for future use alongside a number of their Avro displays, which include a full-scale replica of the CF-105 Arrow.<ref>Taylor, Bill. [http://www.avroarrow.net/News.html "Avro Arrow fans lose fight to save final historic hangar."] ''Toronto Star,'' 24 May 2003. Retrieved: 16 September 2009.</ref><ref>Gregg, Peter. [http://www.avroarrow.net/News.html "Press Release: Historic Significance of Boeing Lands adjacent to Toronto Pearson Airport to be Commemorated."] ''Greater Toronto Airport Authority'', Mississauga, ON Canada.  Retrieved: 16 September 2009.</ref>