Canada Aviation Museum Various Exhibits / 06 Avro Arrow Nose
Bill Maloney 7/22/2006 |
Length: 77 feet 9 inches
Wingspan: 50 feet, 0 inches
Height: 21 feet, 3 inches
Crew: 2
Weight: Empty 43,960 lbs Loaded - 62,400 lbs
Max Speed: 820 mph
Cruise Speed: 700 mph
Range: 1,310 miles
Service Ceiling: 75,000 feet
Fuel Capacity: 3,010 gallons internally
Powerplant: Two Pratt & Whitney J75-P-3 turbojets 23,500 lbs thrust each with afterburner
Armament:
Eight Sparrow AIM II Air to Air missiles internally or
Four Air-2 Genie Air To Air nuclear tipped rockets
First Flight : 1958
Cost: $80,000,000 each for 5 airframes
This is the only surviving original nose section of an Avro CF-105 Arrow Jet Interceptor. An outstanding copy of a complete Avro Arrow can be found at the Canadian Air & Space Museum in Toronto, Ontario. A surviving Orenda PS.13 Iroquois turbojet engine that was designed to be fitted to the Avro Arrow can be found at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope, Ontario. One more original Avro Arrow Orenda PS-13 Iroquois tubojet engine can be found here at the Canada Aviation Museum.
Below are the only surviving wings from an Avro Arrow: