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Talleres Loring (Loring Workshops) was a Spanish aeronautical company founded by engineer and entrepreneur Jorge Loring after moving to
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History

A predecessor company, Loring Pujol y Cia, had been founded in
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by Jorge Loring together with Claudio Baradat Guillé in 1918. The new company established its factory in
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, in SW
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in 1923 and began production in
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.Ateneo - Jorge Loring Martinez
/ref> It soon received orders to manufacture military aircraft, beginning with
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planes. Later ''Talleres Loring'' would build some of
Juan de la Cierva Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva (; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcr ...
's
autogyro An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), gyroscope, gyrocopter or gyroplane, is a class of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. A gyroplane "means a rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-d ...
prototypes, such as the Cierva C.7 and
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. Talleres Loring also would produce its own aircraft, mostly designed by engineer
Eduardo Barrón Eduardo Barrón (full name Eduardo Barrón y Ramos de Sotomayor; 7 September 1888 – 13 January 1949) was a Spanish Aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineer and military pilot who led the design department at ''Talleres Loring'' from 1923 ...
, such as the Loring R-1, the Loring R-2 and the
Loring R-3 __NOTOC__ The Loring R-III or R-3 was a 1920s Spanish two-seat sesquiplane reconnaissance and light attack aircraft designed by engineer Eduardo Barrón and built by Dr. Jorge Loring's company — '' Talleres Loring''. Operational history In th ...
airplanes. Overwhelmed by the large financial cost of its projects, in 1931 Jorge Loring rejoined the government service. Three years later, in
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, the Talleres Loring company filed for
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. Jorge Loring was bailed out by his brother and founded
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(AISA), which also manufactured aircraft for military use, and where he was found dead on 22 September 1936, at the beginning of the
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. The Loring RB
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, a monoplane prototype said to have been built right at the beginning in 1923, and the T-2 are developments about which there are almost no data.


List of Aircraft

* C-1, fighter prototype based on the R-3; one built and exhibited at the ''Palacio de Cristal'' Aeronautical exhibition in 1926. * E-1, two-seat light monoplane prototype with an extra fin and rudder placed over the fuselage; first flown in 1929. * E-2, parasol wing light monoplane; at least 4 built in 1930. * R-1, two-seat
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for surveillance and light bombing, 30 built in 1925. * R-2, a development of the R-I that did not go into production. * R-3, a reconnaissance and light attack aircraft; four prototypes built in 1926; went into production in 1927 with a total of 110 units built. * T-1, light
trainer aircraft A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristic ...
based on the R-3; one prototype built in 1926. * T-2, also known as B-1, commercial
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prototype for 5 passengers; built in 1929 or 1930 * T-3, three-engined commercial monoplane, also known as ''Barrón Colonial''; a "colonial aircraft" built in 1931, first flight in 1932. *
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, ambitious project of a six-engined bomber with a 4.000 kg payload that remained on paper.Warleta Carrillo, José (1989). «Revista Aeroplano nº 6». In Instituto de Historia y Cultura Aeronáutica. ''Eduardo Barrón y Ramos de Sotomayor.'' Madrid. p. 64. *
Loring X Loring may refer to: People Given name * Loring Woart Bailey (1839–1925), American-Canadian geologist, botanist and university professor * Loring M. Black Jr. (1886–1956), American lawyer and politician * Loring Buzzell (1927–1959), America ...
, a two-seat low-wing monoplane with closed cockpit; built in 1934. ; Under licence: *
Cierva C.12 The Cierva C.12 was an experimental autogyro built by Cierva Autogiro Company in England in 1929, in association with Avro. Development Like most other Cierva designs, it was based on an existing aircraft fuselage - in this case, an Avro Avian. ...
*
Fokker C.IV The Fokker C.IV is a 1920s Netherlands, Dutch two-seat reconnaissance aircraft that was designed and built by Fokker. Design and development The C.IV was developed from the earlier Fokker C.I, C.I but it was a larger and more robust aircraft. ...


References


External links

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Aircraft that may have participated in the Spanish Civil War
* ttp://airspot.ru/catalogue/aircrafts/country/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F?page=2 Early Spanish aircraft (in Russian) {{Loring aircraft Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Spain Industrial history of Spain