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Although the Canadian government purchased and built thousands of military aircraft for use by the RCAF Home War Establishment (RCAF Eastern Air Command and RCAF Western Air Command) and the Canadian-based units of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, under the provisions of the plan Canada was to provide the training aircraft and ...
About 16,000 aircraft were manufactured in Canada, including about 450 four-engine Avro Lancaster bombers and 1400 Hawker Hurricane fighters, as well as many training aircraft such as the Harvard, Anson, and Tiger Moth. [33] Aviation manufacturers in Canada included: Canadian Vickers 1923-1944; Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. 1920-1950; Fleet Aircraft ...
Victory Aircraft Limited was a Canadian manufacturing company that, during the Second World War, built mainly British-designed aircraft under licence. It acted as a shadow factory , safe from the reach of German bombers.
Canadian Car and Foundry (1 C, 2 P) D. De Havilland Canada (1 C, 5 P) Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Canada (21 P) H. Helicopter manufacturers of Canada (2 P)
Canadian Aviation Corps (1914–1915) which operated a single Burgess-Dunne tailless floatplane; Canadian Air Force (CAF) (1920–1924) while under the control of the Air Board. Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) (1924–1968) until amalgamated with the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army to form a unified Canadian Forces.
Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4(Can) Canuck (1200), [3] the Felixstowe F5L flying boat (30), [4] and the Avro 504. [5] The plant remained opened until after the Armistice and was sold to Columbia Graphophone Company Limited [2] in 1919. After 1924 it was sold to Dodge Brothers Canada Limited as a car assembly plant till 1928. [6]
Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft (1988) 414pp; Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016).
Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company. It was founded in 1945 as an aircraft plant and within 13 years became the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000. [1]