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

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

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.