This picture was taken in front of the De Havilland hangar at Toronto. Canadian Armed Forces photo

Scrapped after a sudden decision to cancel the project in February 1959. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Volunteers members of the Toronto Aerospace Museum (TAM) build a full scale medical model of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow at Downsview Airport between 1998 and October 2006 when the aircraft was rolled out before large crowds. The original supersonic Arrow program was cancelled by the Canadian government on February 20, 1959 and all Arrows scrapped except for a cockpit and one wing set. In Sep. 2011, the Museum was evicted from Downsview Park so the historic DHC hangar could be demolished to build a hockey rink. The Arrow model moved to YYZ on Sep. 21-22, 2013 and later to Edenvale Airport.

RL-201 made the first and last flights of Canada's cancelled Mach 2 interceptor fighter on the given dates, piloted by Jan Zurakowski and 'Spud' Potocki respectively. Of the four pilots to fly the Arrow, only Jack Woodman was born in Canada. Photo from: Avro Canada

Full scale replica of the CF-105 under construction at Downsview. The Arrow was a large twin-engine delta winged all-weather fighter which first flew in 1958, but the programme was controversially cancelled in 1959.

All aircraft cancellations can be viewed as sad from a particular perspective but the story of the magnificent Avro CF-105 Arrow, an aircraft that would still have been state of the art and ahead of its time twenty years later, is particularly poignant. After the destruction of the prototypes and subsequent supression of the aircraft's legacy very little has survived. This set of Prototype 3's wings has been placed in storage in the Reserve Collection hangar at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum at Ottawa - Rockcliffe.

Nearly all that remains of Canada's Mach 2 Avro Arrow program. The first of five Mark 1 prototypes flew on March 25, 1958, but the program had been under scrutiny since 1957 by a newly elected government. The pictured aircraft was the first Arrow Mk 2 powered by the more powerful, yet lighter, Canadian designed Iroquois engine. It was being prepared for taxi testing when cancellation happened on February 20, 1959. 14,000 workers lost their job and all aircraft, engines, tooling and technical drawings were ordered scrapped.