Editing Avro Canada (section)

===CF-100 Canuck===
[[File:CF.100 Mk.1.JPG|thumb|left|A CF-100 Mk 3 painted as the CF-100 prototype, on display at [[The Hangar Flight Museum]], [[Calgary]]]]
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In 1946, A.V. Roe Canada's next design, the Avro XC-100, Canada's first jet fighter, started at the end of the era of propeller-driven aircraft and the beginning of the jet age.<ref name="Frontiers"/> Although the design of the large, jet-powered all-weather interceptor, renamed the [[Avro CF-100 Canuck|CF-100 Canuck]], was largely complete by the next year, the factory was not tooled for production until late 1948 due to ongoing repair and maintenance contracts. The CF-100 would have a long gestation period before finally entering RCAF service in 1952, initially with the Mk 2 and Mk 3 variants.

The CF-100 Canuck operated under [[NORAD]] to protect airspace from Soviet threats such as nuclear-armed bombers during all weather and day/night conditions. Although not designed for speeds over Mach 0.85, it was taken supersonic during a dive by test pilot [[Janusz Żurakowski]] in December 1952.<ref>Whitcomb 2008, p. 89.</ref>

A small number of CF-100s served with the RCAF until 1981 in reconnaissance, training and electronic warfare (ECM) roles.<ref name="Frontiers"/> In its lifetime, a total of 692 CF-100s of different variants, including 53 aircraft for the [[Belgian Air Force]], were produced.