Editing Avro Canada (section)

===C102 Jetliner===
[[File:Avro Canada C102 Jetliner model.jpg|thumb|right|Model of the C102 Jetliner.]]
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Work was also underway on a jet-powered civilian short- to medium-range transport<ref>Floyd 1986, pp. 3–4.</ref> known as the [[Avro Jetliner|C102 Jetliner]].<ref name="Frontiers"/><ref name="avroland">[http://www.avroland.ca/al-c102.html "The Avro C.102 Jetliner."] ''Avroland''. Retrieved: 15 April 2009.</ref> It nearly became the first jet transport in the world when it first flew in August 1949, a mere 13 days following the first flight of the [[de Havilland Comet]]. The Jetliner represented a new type of regional jet airliner that would not see comparable designs until the late 1950s. An aggressive marketing campaign was directed at U.S. airlines and the USAF.

When the [[Rolls-Royce Avon]] AJ-65 engine was withdrawn from foreign markets by the British government, the design was modified to take four [[Rolls-Royce Derwent|Derwent]] engines of higher weight and lower performance. The resulting design could no longer meet the operating range requirement of [[Air Canada|Trans-Canada Airlines]]. The sales prospects of the Jetliner floundered after the launch customer TCA withdrew from consideration of the four-engine variant.<ref>Peter Piggot, ''National Treasure: The History of Trans Canada Airlines'', Harbour Publishing, 2001 {{ISBN|1-55017-268-9}}, pages 241–242</ref> The American industrialist [[Howard Hughes]] even offered to start production under license.<ref name="avroland"/>

The company was still attempting to get the CF-100 into production at the time and, consequently, the Canadian government cancelled any further work on the C102 due to [[Korean War]] priorities: [[C. D. Howe]] demanded the project be stopped to increase production of the CF-100,<ref>Floyd 1986, p. 45.</ref> so the second C-102 prototype was scrapped in the plant in 1951, with the first relegated to photographic duties in the Flight Test Department. After a lengthy career as a camera platform and company "hack", ''CF-EJD-X'' was broken up in 1956. The nose section now resides in the [[Canada Aviation Museum]] in Ottawa.