Aeronáutica Industrial S.A. is a Spanish aeronautical company. The predecessor company, ''

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'' had been founded by Jorge Loring in 1923.

History

The predecessor company was founded by Jorge Loring Martinez in

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near

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in 1924. ''Aeronáutica Industrial S.A.'' was established in

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and through the course of the 20th century manufactured a number of light aircraft designs including

Cierva The Cierva Autogiro Company was a British firm established in 1926 to develop the autogyro. The company was set up to further the designs of Juan de la Cierva, a Spanish engineer and pilot, with the financial backing of James George Weir, a Scott ...

autogyro An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), also known as a ''gyroplane'', is a type of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. Forward thrust is provided independently, by an engine-driven propeller. Whi ...

s. In

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, AISA purchased Spanish manufacturer Iberavia and took over the I-11 light plane project, eventually building around 400 examples. For a time it specialised in the maintenance and upgrading of

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

s. In

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it attempted, unsuccessfully, to market an

design of its own, the GN. The company was bought by CASA in

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, but continues to operate under its own name.

List of Aircraft

* González Gil-Pazó No. 1 (1931), tandem two-seat low wing trainer. *

González Gil-Pazó GP-1 The González Gil-Pazó GP-1 was a single-engine, two-seat open cockpit training aircraft, built in Spain in the 1930s to compete for a government contract. Declared the winner, production was curtailed by the Spanish Civil War. Two cabin varia ...

(1934), development of No. 1 with improved fuselage and wing. 100 ordered by

Spanish Republican Air Force The Spanish Republican Air Force was the air arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939. Initially divided into two branches: Military Aeronautics ('' Aeronáutica M ...

, but only 40 built due to the

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. * González Gil-Pazó GP-2 (1935) GP-1 with enclosed cockpit and modified fuselage.GP-2
/ref> * González Gil-Pazó GP-4 * INTA HM.1 (1943), tandem two-seat low wing trainer, also known as Huarte Mendicoa HM-1 after its designer. * Iberavia I-11 (1951) - single-engine trainer/touring aircraft with fixed tricycle undercarriage and side-by-side seating. Two prototypes built * AISA I-11B (1952) AISA production version of I-11, with smaller canopy and tailwheel undercarriage used by civil aviation clubs and the Spanish Air Force. * AISA I-115 "E-6" (1950s) I-11B variant with revised fuselage for tandem seating used by the Spanish Air Force *

AISA GN __NOTOC__ The AISA GN was a prototype four-seat autogyro developed in Spain between 1971 and 1982. it featured an extensively-glazed cabin fitted with a pusher engine and tricycle undercarriage. A separate tail fin was carried at the end of two ...

(1982) single-engine four-seat autogyro prototype. One built

References

External links

Company website
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