* Avro 706 Ashton ( 1950 )

A twin turboprop airliner, the Avro 748, was developed during the 1950s and sold widely across the globe, powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart engines.

Gordon oversaw Avro Canada's restructuring and expansion during the 1950s into the third largest corporation in Canada.

During the late 1950s Offutt housed a Royal Air Force facility for servicing Avro Vulcans, which visited the air base frequently while on exercise with SAC.

Similarly, the replacement to Avro CF-100, the Avro Arrow, was controversially cancelled in the late 1950s.

In the 1950s and 1960s in Canada, John Carver Meadows Frost at Avro Canada started experimenting with the Coandă effect and noticed that he could produce a ring of airflow by blowing the air down over a convex surface.

Avro Shackleton, the mainstay of Coastal Command in the 1950s.

The Avro Shackleton was the main operational aircraft 1950s, replacing the wartime Liberator GRs, along with the Neptune MR. 1s.

In the 1950s, RAF Coltishall was a designated a " V-Bomber dispersal base ", whereby V bombers ( the British nuclear deterrent carrying aircraft )-the Avro Vulcan, Handley Page Victor and Vickers Valiant-could use in the event of their home base being damaged by enemy action.

The museum's best known exhibit is the surviving components of the Avro Arrow interceptor from the late 1950s.

Also, after being transferred from RAF Catfoss in October 1945, and into the early 1950s, it was home to the Central Gunnery School which, among other functions, trained air gunners in Avro Lincoln bombers.

In the 1950s, a later variant, H2S Mk. 9, formed part of the Navigation and Bombing System ( NBS ) installed in the RAF's V bomber force, comprising the Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor aircraft.

1930's Fox and Tiger Moths, 1930's Rapide, Short Solent 1940s double decked flying boat, from New Zealand's first International Airline TEAL, a Short Sunderland marine patrol flying boat, De Havilland Mosquito wooden fighter bomber, a restored 1940s Avro Lancaster bomber, Douglas DC-3 Dakota through to a De Havilland Vampire 1950s jet fighter and most recently former RNZAF Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and Aermacchi MB-339CB advanced jet trainers.

* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.

The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force.

The Ministry of Supply selected Avro out of the British manufacturers though it had no previous experience in working on guided weapons other than some private venture work ; Handley Page had suggested a missile but the Elliots gyro based guidance system was inaccurate beyond.

* Avro 571 Buffalo, a 1920s prototype carrier-based British torpedo bomber

Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways.

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.

Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, with numerous landmark designs such as the Avro 504 trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.

The postwar Vulcan bombers, originally designed as a nuclear strike aircraft, were used to maintain the British nuclear deterrent, armed with the Avro Blue Steel stand-off nuclear bomb.

But the brand had a strong heritage appeal, and the marketing name " Avro RJ " ( regional jet ) was used by British Aerospace for production of the RJ-85 and RJ-100 models of the BAe 146 from 1994 to 2001.

* Avro Andover, a British military transport aircraft of the 1920s

* Avro Avian, a series of British light aircraft designed and built by Avro in the 1920s and 1930s

In 1943, the Brabazon Committee had laid down a set of civil aircraft transport types for the British aircraft industry to produce, but these were to be several years in coming, and particularly in the case of the tailwheel Avro Tudor, not what BOAC wanted.

The Halifax became the second most prolific British heavy bomber of the war after the Avro Lancaster ( essentially a four-engine development of the Manchester ).

The NZPAF acquired more modern British types including significant numbers of Airspeed Oxfords, Avro 626s, Fairey Gordons, Vickers Vildebeests and Blackburn Baffins — and small numbers of other types.

* 5 – 6 June, several RAF Avro Lancasters attempting to bomb the German artillery battery at Merville-Franceville-Plage attacked instead friendly positions, killing 186 soldiers of the British Reconnaissance Corps and devastating the town.

By the end of the Second World War in 1945, the " heavy " bomber, epitomized by the British Avro Lancaster and American B-32 used in the Pacific Theater, showed what could be accomplished by area bombing of Japan's cities and the often small and dispersed factories within them.

" of British aviation, comparable to the cancellation and destruction of the American Northrop Flying Wing bombers, and Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor that was scrapped in Canada in 1959.

** The British World War II aeroplane used by Winston Churchill, named after the lance — an Avro York

* April 29 – An Avro Vulcan bomber deploys to Ascension Island as part of the Falklands War build-up of British forces in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Seven British warships have borne the name in his honour, as well as the Avro Anson aircraft of the RAF.

The British Avro Type D was the first successful seaplane.

The first airliners with turbojet propulsion were experimental conversions of the Avro Lancastrian piston engined airliner, which were flown with several types of early jet engine, including the de Havilland Ghost and the Rolls-Royce Nene.

* 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.

Turbojet engines were trialled on piston engine airframes, such as the Avro Lancastrian and the Vickers VC. 1 Viking, the latter becoming the first jet engine passenger aircraft in April 1948.

The first purpose built jet airliners were the de Havilland Comet ( UK ) and the Avro Jetliner ( Canada ).

After World War II JATO became particularly common owing to the low slow-speed thrust of then-current jet engines or for assisting heavy aircraft ; the prop-engined Avro Shackelton used Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojets for takeoff.

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.

The company continued building jet engines, under licence, for the RCAF from Avro and Canadair Aircraft Ltd in the 1960s.

In 1954 the Canadian government decided to sell the plant and Avro Canada agreed to purchase it to maintain production of the Orenda and Iroquois engines. The company employed over 400 in the production of precision forgings, blades, jet engine components, close-tolerance forging, and operation of aluminum and magnesium foundries.

*" Canuck " is a nickname for the Curtiss JN4 biplane and Avro CF-100 jet fighter.

Also developed in 1949 was the Avro Canada Jetliner, and although it never reached production, the term jetliner caught on as a generic term for all passenger jet aircraft.

Thai Airways bought the turboprop Avro 748 in 1963, the jet Boeing 737-200 in 1977, Short 330 in 1982, Short 360 and Airbus A310-200 in 1985.

They mainly operated British Aerospace 146 aircraft on ad-hoc charters, and an Avro RJ100 regional jet with which they operated a regular service between Southend and Cologne from 7 June 2006 to 1 December 2008 on behalf of Ford Motor Company as a corporate shuttle.

Despite Avro Canada's success in producing the CF-100, Canada's first jet fighter for the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ), aircraft development had proven to be a time-consuming and expensive process.

The company was an important supplier of accessories for jet engines, building the exhaust pipes for the Avro CF-100 Canuck and later becoming the primary maintenance depot for the aircraft.

* November 23-An Avro Lancastrian powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engines and two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets turns off its Merlins and, operating using only the Nenes, becomes the first commercial aircraft to fly solely on jet power, making the trip from London to Paris in just 41 minutes.

After the end of World War II, the squadron was given the Avro Lincoln, following those in 1952 with the English Electric Canberra jet bomber.

Andrew Matthews of the 104 Communications Flight at RCAF St. Hubert arranged for a series of different aircraft to fly through the network, including an Auster light aircraft, a T-33 Shooting Star, an Avro Lancaster bomber and even a recently acquired de Havilland Comet jet transport.

For example, for the controls of the RAF's Avro Vulcan jet bomber and the RCAF's Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow supersonic interceptor ( both 1950s-era designs ), the required force feedback was achieved by a spring device.

In 1946 the squadron re-equipped with the Avro Lincoln until in 1952 it joined the jet-age and re-equipped with the Canberra jet bomber.

CityFlyer Express acquired its first jet aircraft in March 1997 when it became the first UK-based airline to introduce the Avro RJ100.

The Arrow is a four-hour miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader during World War II and president of A. V. Roe Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor.