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Search crews said Thursday night they may have found a test model of the Avro Arrow on the floor of Lake Ontario.

“A high-priority target has been identified!,” the OEX Recovery Group announced. “It appears to resemble an Avro Arrow free-flight model. We have deployed the ROV to capture a better image of the target, and will provide an update tomorrow morning at 11AM – stay tuned.”

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OEX began its quest in July and has been using a small submersible to conduct its search in the waters of Lake Ontario.

“Once recovered, the replicas will be housed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa and the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton for all Canadians to see,” the group noted.

Here is some background material OEX has provided:

“At the bottom of Lake Ontario are nine Avro Arrow free-flight models that were launched in a series of tests during 1954 to 1957.

OEX Recovery Group Incorporated (OEX), which is financially supported by a group of Canadian mining companies and financial institutions, recently announced the search for and recovery of these models. The project is called Raise the Arrow.

The only known artifacts from the program remaining to be found are the free flight test models, which for over sixty years have rested somewhere on the bottom of Lake Ontario. The models are flying replicas of the actual aircraft and the last step from design testing prior to production of the actual flying jets.

The models are one-eighth scale replicas of the famed flying jet, and were part of the final flight design test work done prior to the production of the CF-105 Arrow.”