Case file · Folklore / legend
The Avro Arrow that got away
When the government cancelled the CF-105 Arrow interceptor on 20 February 1959 and ordered every airframe cut up at Malton, a legend grew that one test pilot flew an Arrow away to safety.
1959 CE · 43.68, -79.63 · status: claim
The account
The cancellation threw some 14,000 people out of work and became a national grievance. Scale models fired over Lake Ontario were recovered from the lake bed from 2017, which revived the story.
The sceptical view
No evidence supports a surviving aircraft; all six flown airframes and the unfinished ones were scrapped.