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The Rohrbach Ro X Romar was a German long-range commercial flying-boat and the last aircraft designed and built by Rohrbach Metall Flugzeugbau GmbH.
Rohrbach X "Romar"
{{Rohrbach aircraft 1920s German airliners Flying boats Romar Three-engined pusher aircraft High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1928
Development
The Romar was the final production aircraft from Rohrbach and was a monoplane flying-boat with a crew of four or five and two cabins for a total of 12 passengers. The revised Romar II could accommodate 16 passengers. It had threeBMW VI
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UZ Vee piston engines strut mounted above the wing. The first aircraft flew on 7 August 1928 and was unveiled at the Berlin Aviation Exhibition in October 1928. Only four aircraft were built, three were used on Baltic services by Deutsche Luft Hansa
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*Deutsche Luft Hansa
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Rohrbach Romar under construction Rohrbach X "Romar"
{{Rohrbach aircraft 1920s German airliners Flying boats Romar Three-engined pusher aircraft High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1928