After 20 years of planning, engineering and hard work, a group of volunteers is inching toward their goal of seeing a replica Avro Arrow take to the skies. As the group marked the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the original Avro Arrow — which happened March 25, 1958 — they say it will still be about another five years before theirs is ready to take flight. Roe Canada in Malton, Ont., the Avro Arrow was built to intercept Soviet bombers that might have entered North American airspace during the Cold War. For the last two decades, volunteers at the Avro Museum of Springbank Airport have been diligently building a replica, dubbed the Arrow II. A model of the Avro Arrow hanging at the museum.

Source: CBC News March 24, 2018 21:56 UTC