{{Short description|French aircraft manufacturing company}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox company |name= ''Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano'' |logo= |type= |genre= |fate=Merged |predecessor=''Chantiers aéronavals de la Méditerranée'' |successor=SNCASE |foundation=16 August 1929 |founder=Étienne Romano & André Auniac |defunct=11 August 1936 |location_city=Cannes |location_country=France |location= |locations= |area_served= |key_people= |industry=Aeronautics, defence |products=Aircraft |production= |services= |revenue= |operating_income= |net_income= |aum= |assets= |equity= |owner= |num_employees= |parent= |divisions= |subsid= |homepage= |footnotes= }} thumb|Share of the Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano, issued 16 August 1929 [[File:Romano R-80 Spanish Republican AF.jpg|thumb|265px|Romano R.80 of the Spanish Republican Air Force training facility at El Carmolí]] [[File:Romano r-83-5.jpg|thumb|265px|Romano R.83]] The '''''S.A. des Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano''''' (CAER) was an aircraft manufacturing company based in Cannes, France.<ref name="C.A.S.P.">[http://www.cannes-aero-patrimoine.net/pdf/pub/caspk_APADH__005_Jung_His_Cannes.pdf Cannes Aéro Spatial Patrimoine - Histoires extraordinaires: L’Établissement d'aerospatiale Cannes]</ref> 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'' <ref name="creation">[http://archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr/dossiers/littoral/1929/Jx5_Littoral_1929_08_18_Page_03.pdf archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr ''Le Littoral'', 18 August 1929 (1st part)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217101816/http://archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr/dossiers/littoral/1929/Jx5_Littoral_1929_08_18_Page_03.pdf |date=17 December 2013 }} & [http://archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr/dossiers/littoral/1929/Jx5_Littoral_1929_08_18_Page_04.pdf (2d part)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217102038/http://archivesjournaux.ville-cannes.fr/dossiers/littoral/1929/Jx5_Littoral_1929_08_18_Page_04.pdf |date=2013-12-17 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="C.A.S.P."/>
On 11 August 1936 the Romano company was nationalized<ref>[http://blog.avionslegendaires.net/2012/06/focus-il-y-a-75-ans-les-nationalisations-de-laeronautique-francaise/ Il y a 75 ans, les nationalisations de l’aéronautique française]</ref> 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.<ref name = "Hartmann1">{{citation |last1=Hartmann |first1=Gérard |title=Les réalisations de la SNCASE |url=http://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/sncase.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2009-07-15 |date=2005-01-05 |language=French |quote=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.}}</ref>
== 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== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|France|Companies|Aviation}} *{{commonscat inline}} *[http://aaazureennes.chez.com/romano.html Étienne Romano] *[http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/a_romano.php Aviastar - Romano Aircraft] *[http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/spain/did.html Spanish Civil War Aircraft] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205085135/http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/Spain/did.html |date=2015-02-05 }} *[http://www.aero-journal.com/enkiosque.php Alcatel space à Cannes; Plus qu’une entreprise, une légende] *[http://www.aero-journal.com/enkiosque.php Aero Journal Les Bimoteurs Romano] {{Romano aircraft}} {{SNCASE}} {{Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France}}
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