C-102 Avro Jetliner

The Avro C-102 Jetliner was a prototype aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada in the late 1940s. First flown on August 10th 1949, this was a 4 turbojet engine passenger aircraft that was only beaten to the air by the de Havilland Comet by a total of 13 days (making it the second jet airliner in the world.

Howard Hughes offered to produce it under license, however the project was ended in 1951 before any more could be built. A second airframe was is production but was scrapped before completion.

After the prototype was ordered to be surplussed in 1956, the Jetliner was partially scrapped. Only the nose and cockpit section still exist and are in the care of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.

(This was lovingly paraphrased from the Wikipedia entry on the plane)

The original plane had a 98ft wingspan and a length of about 83ft. This was model was designed in Fusion 360 based on a set of low resolution 3-view orthogonal images and reference photos.

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