The Avro Avian was a series of British light aircraft designed and built by Avro in the 1920s and 1930s Wikipedia
Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Used at Camp Borden, Ontario. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Used by Controller of Civil Aviation in 1930. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Loaned by DND to the Cape Breton Flying Club at Sydney, NS. Damaged beyond repair in heavy landing near Sydney on 28 June 1937. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. To Ottawa Technical School as training aid. Registration CF-CAY reserved. Loaned by DND to the Cape Breton Flying Club at Sydney, NS. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. To Ottawa Technical School as training aid. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Category A crash at Camp Borden, Ontario on 28 September 1931, after mid-air with Moth 79. Sgt. F.B. Brisco bailed out successfully, Sgt. Hitchen killed. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. No record of civil registration, not known if ever operated by Hamilton Flying Club. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Used at Camp Borden. Category A accident while there, on 28 September 1931, apparently repaired. To civil register as CF-CAJ. Loaned by DND to the Ottawa Flying Club. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Used at Camp Borden, Ontario. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by Cape Breton Flying Club as CF-CDF in 1931. Damaged beyond repair after stall and hard landing at Sydney, dates unclear. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by Cape Breton Flying Club as CF-CDG in 1931. Damaged beyond repair 15 August 1937 in hard landing at Sydney. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Toronto Flying Club, later to their ownership as CF-CDU in 1933.. To Ottawa Flying Club on 11 August 1937. Registration cancelled on 25 October 1939, to Ottawa Technical School as an instructional airframe. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by Brandon Flying Club as CF-CDH in 1931. Loaned to Brandon Flying Club. Donated back to RCAF in 1941, used as instructional airframe at No. 19 Elementary Flying Training School at Virden, Manitoba. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by Cape Breton Flying Club as CF-CDE in 1933. Loaned to Cape Breton Flying Club at Sydney, NS. Damaged beyond repair on 10 June 1937, when undercarriage collapsed due to bolt failure on landing at New Glasgow, NS. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Category C damage at Camp Borden on 22 July 1931. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Category B damage at Camp Borden on 6 August 1931. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by Brandon Flying Club as CF-CDI in 1931. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by Brant-Norfolk Flying Club as CF-CDJ in 1931.Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car from UK supplied complete airframe. Loaned to Moose Jaw Flying Club in 1932, civil register as CF-CDQ. Ownership to Winnipeg Flying Club on 20 November 1936. Sold to M. Helfrich of Winnipeg on 21 June 1937. Withdrawn from use due to wartime restrictions on 26 August 1943. Sold to C. Graffo of Winnipeg on 6 February 1967. Restored, donated to National Aeronautical Collection in 1968. Now on display at Rockcliffe, Ontario.Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Loaned to Winnipeg Flying Club as CF-CDR from 21 July 1932. To No. 14 Elementary Flying Training School at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba as a training aid, after registration cancelled. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments: Camp Borden
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Category A crash at Camp Borden on 9 September 1931. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Loaned to Calgary Aero Club in 1933 as CF-CDV in 1933, later to their ownership. Sold to K.A. Pollock of Hilda, Alberta. Withdrawn from use on 7 September 1943 and stored. Restored in the 1960s and donated to the Western Canada Pioneer Museum in Wetaskawin, Alberta (later renamed the Reynolds Museum). Still on display at the Reynolds Museum. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Operated by London Flying Club (Ontario) as CF-CDT in 1933. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Transferred to flying clubs. Loaned to London Flying Club as CF-CDW in 1933, later to their ownership. Sold to H.W. Fowler of St. Thomas, Ontario on 25 May 1937. Crashed into a tree after engine failure on takeoff from St. Thomas on 28 January 1940, not repaired. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Transferred to flying clubs. Operated by Ottawa Flying Club as CF-CDK in 1931. Loaned to Ottawa Flying Club. Sold to J.O. Noury of Ottawa on 1 September 1937, but registration not taken up. Registered to F.F. Cybulskie of Barrys Bay, Ontario on 19 November 1937, after a major rebuild. To W.L. Galbraith of Renfrew, Ontario on 12 May 1939. To J.S. Belway of Westboro, Ontario on 15 February 1940. Destroyed when it struck a tree near Blue Sea Lake, Quebec during a forced landing following an engine failure, on 17 March 1940. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Loaned to Regina Flying Club. Operated as CF-CDX in 1933. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Assembled by Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., after arrival from UK. Transferred to flying clubs. Loaned to Brant-Norfolk Aero Club at Brantford, On in 1931. Operated by Brant-Norfolk Flying Club as CF-CDL. To Ottawa Flying Club on 10 September 1937. Sold to R. Marchand of Ottawa on 30 April 1938. To J.M. Berry of Ottawa on 4 July 1938. To J.O. Noury of Ottawa in May 1939, registration not taken up. To W.S. Sparrow of Ottawa on 19 August 1939. To G.S. Levy of Ottawa on 15 July 1940, but registration not taken up due to wartime restrictions. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned by DND to Brant-Norfolk Flying Club at Brantford, Ontario in 1929. Ground looped during landing at Brantford on 16 July 1931, damaged beyond repair. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
First loaned by DND to Brant-Norfolk Flying Club at Brantford, Ontario in 1929. To Ottawa Flying Club on 11 July 1935, still registered to DND. Re-engined with AS Genet Major that month. Ownership transferred to Ottawa Flying Club on 6 October 1936. Withdrawn from use 21 May 1939, broken up for spares. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned by DND to the Brandon Aero Association, Brandon, Manitoba in 1929. Re-engined with Armstrong-Siddley Genet Major engine September 1935. Withdrawn from use 18 May 1937, broken up. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned by DND to the Brandon Aero Association, Brandon, Manitoba in 1929. Re-engined with ADC Cirrus Hermes II engine during 1936. Registered to H.C. Austin of Brandon on 23 June 1937. To R.A. Joberty of St. Boniface, Manitoba on 28 August 1939. To P. Atkin of Winnipeg, Manitoba on 16 July 1940. Withdrawn from use on 16 June 1941. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned by DND to Ottawa Flying Club in 1930, still registered to DND. Ownership transferred to Ottawa Flying Club on 6 October 1936. Sold to J.O. Noury, (later to design the Fleet Canuck) of Ottawa on 1 October 1938. Rebuilt, using ADC Cirrus III engine. Registered to L. Ethier of Ottawa on 4 October 1938. Withdrawn from use due to war time restrictions on 3 October 1939. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned by DND to London Flying Club in 1930. Stalled on take off on training flight at London on 19 March 1934, crashed, damaged beyond repair. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Ottawa Flying Club in 1936. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Ottawa Flying Club in 1936. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Border Cities Aero Club in Walkerville, Ontario in 1936. Severely damaged on 6 May 1939 when it nosed over after being hit by a gust of wind while landing at Walkerville, not repaired. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Border Cities Aero Club in Walkerville, Ontario in 1936. Damaged on 17 January 1939, nosed over while being warmed up without anyone on board, not repaired. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Saskatoon Aero Club in 1936. Damaged at Bladworth, Saskatchewan (70 miles south-south-east of Saskatoon) on 5 September 1937, stored. Sold to F.R. Glass of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on 10 April 1939, registered by him on 16 March 1942. Registration cancelled on 6 February 1943, reported broken up for spares. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to Saskatoon Aero Club in 1936. Sold to F.R. Glass, Jr. of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on 14 April 1939. Damaged at Prince Albert on 19 May 1940 when a passenger accidently advanced the throttle while the aircraft was on the ground, aircraft taxied into fence. Not repaired. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to St. Catharines Flying Club in 1936. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Loaned to St. Catharines Flying Club in 1936. last update: 2024-February-19Known Squadron Assignments:
Ex CF-CFH, which had been registered to the Department of National Defence in 1937 for use at the Brandon Flying Club. Received from Department of Transport. Used as Instructional Airframe at No. 19 Elementary Flying Training School at Virden, Manitoba.To RCAF instructional airframe register on 22 March 1941, as A.129. last update: 2024-February-19