Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano

Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano

Industry	Aeronautics, defence
Fate	Merged
Predecessor	Chantiers aéronavals de la Méditerranée
Successor	SNCASE
Founded	16 August 1929
Founder	Étienne Romano & André Auniac
Defunct	11 August 1936
Headquarters	Cannes, France
Products	Aircraft

Romano R.80 of the Spanish Republican Air Force training facility at El Carmolí.

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.

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]

On 11 August 1936 the Romano company was nationalized^[3] following which in 1937 it was merged with Lioré et Olivier, Potez, CAMS and SPCA in order to form the Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) on 1 February 1937.^[4]

Aircraft

• R.3
• R.4
• R.5
• R.6
• R.15
• R.16
• R.80
• R.82
• R.83
• R.90
• R.92
• R.110
• R.120

References

1. 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.

External links

• Media related to Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano at Wikimedia Commons
• Étienne Romano
• Aviastar - Romano Aircraft
• Spanish Civil War Aircraft
• Alcatel space à Cannes; Plus qu’une entreprise, une légende
• Aero Journal Les Bimoteurs Romano