Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano

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Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano
Industry Aeronautics, defence
FateMerged
PredecessorChantiers aéronavals de la Méditerranée
Successor SNCASE
Founded16 August 1929
FounderÉtienne Romano & André Auniac
Defunct11 August 1936
Headquarters Cannes , France
ProductsAircraft
Share of the Chantiers aeronavals Etienne Romano, issued 16. August 1929 Chantiers Aeronavals E. Romano 1929.jpg
Share of the Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano, issued 16. August 1929
Romano R.80 of the Spanish Republican Air Force training facility at El Carmoli. Romano R-80 Spanish Republican AF.jpg
Romano R.80 of the Spanish Republican Air Force training facility at El Carmolí.
Romano R.83. Romano r-83-5.jpg
Romano R.83.

The S.A. des Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano (CAER) was an aircraft manufacturing company based in Cannes, France. [1] The predecessor company, Chantiers aéronavals de la Méditerranée had been founded by Étienne Romano in 1921.

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History

André Auniac and Étienne Romano founded the SA des Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano [2] on 16 August 1929. The factory was ideally located between the Mediterranean Sea and a flat expanse of grassland where the planes could take-off and land. That field would become later Cannes – Mandelieu Airport. In 1931 the Romano factory became operational and full production started. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Cannes Aéro Spatial Patrimoine - Histoires extraordinaires: L’Établissement d'aerospatiale Cannes
  2. ↑ archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr Le Littoral, 18 August 1929 (1st part) & (2d part)
  3. ↑ Il y a 75 ans, les nationalisations de l’aéronautique française
  4. ↑ Hartmann, Gérard (2005-01-05), Les réalisations de la SNCASE (PDF) (in French), retrieved 2009-07-15, Alors qu’on ne sait pas très clairement si les sociétés nationales sont des « usines de production de guerre » sans indépendance et sans bureau d'études, la SNCASE est officiellement formée le 1er février 1937.
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