The '' S.A. des Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano'' (CAER) was an aircraft manufacturing company based in

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/ref> The predecessor company, ''Chantiers aéronavals de la Méditerranée'' had been founded by

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in 1921.

History

André Auniac and Étienne Romano founded the ''SA des Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano'' archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr ''Le Littoral'', 18 August 1929 (1st part)

(2d part)
on 16 August 1929. The factory was ideally located between the

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and a flat expanse of grassland where the planes could take-off and land. That field would become later

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. In 1931 the Romano factory became operational and full production started. On 11 August 1936 the Romano company was nationalizedIl y a 75 ans, les nationalisations de l’aéronautique française
/ref> following which in 1937 it was merged with Lioré et Olivier,

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, CAMS and

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in order to form the Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) on 1 February 1937.

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

External links

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Étienne RomanoAviastar - Romano Aircraft

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