This alternate-history scenario assumes Henderson and Fisher survive to hold the First and Third Sea Lord posts when the Royal Navy has to cancel its single-seat fighter program. They would then seek permission to buy a replacement from America. Britain might select the Buffalo in 1939 but place production in Canada to give the United States distance from the purchase while obtaining aircraft at useful scale. A capable Canadian factory could have delivered the design on time and changed its reputation. Brewster might then have sought Canadian-built aircraft for its delayed US Navy obligations, making control of the production line a further point of contention.
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Could Canadian production have rescued the Buffalo?
An alternate British purchase and Canadian production line shows how factory capacity and licensed manufacture might have changed the fighter's wartime reputation.