Raab-Katzenstein was a 1920s
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aircraft manufacturer based in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
.
History
The main character of the company was its designer
Gerhard Fieseler
Gerhard Fieseler (15 April 1896 – 1 September 1987) was a German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
From birth to the 1918 armistice
Born in Glesch (near Cologne), Fieseler joined the Air Serv ...
. Following
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
, he returned to printing, but yearned to return to flying. In 1926, he closed his print shop in
Eschweiler and became a flight instructor with Raab-Katzenstein and continued to hone his flying skills, becoming an accomplished stunt pilot. In 1927, he performed a particularly daring routine in
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon
, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
Z ...
and started to command increasingly high fees for appearances. In 1928 while working at Raab-Katzenstein, he designed his own stunt plane, the
Fieseler F1
Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe, also known as the Fieseler F 1 Tigerschwalbe, was a German twin-seat biplane trainer aircraft designed by Gerhard Fieseler by the end of the 1920s.
Design and development
In December 1930, Fieseler was invite ...
(also known as the
Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe
Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe, also known as the Fieseler F 1 Tigerschwalbe, was a German twin-seat biplane trainer aircraft designed by Gerhard Fieseler by the end of the 1920s.
Design and development
In December 1930, Fieseler was invite ...
), which was offered and sold to a Swedish company called AB Svenska Järnvägverkstaderna (ASJA), which built 25 of the type for Swedish Air Force in the beginning of the 1930s.
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In 1930, Raab-Katzenstein was bankrupt, and Fieseler decided to strike out on his own. Using money he had been saving from his aerobatics, he bought the Segelflugzeugbau Kassel sailplane factory and renamed it ]Fieseler Flugzeugbau
The Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) in Kassel was a German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s. The company is remembered mostly for its military aircraft built for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
History
The firm was founded ...
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Aircraft
Data from German Aviation 1919-1945[
* KL.1 Schwalbe
* RK.2 Pelikan
* RK.6 Kranich
* RK.7 Schmetterling
* RK.8 Marabu
* RK.9 Grasmücke
* RK.22 Ente
* RK.25 Ruhrland
* RK.26 Tigerschwalbe
* RK.27
* RK.29 Deutsche Motte
]
See also
* AEKKEA-RAAB
* Volksflugzeug
References
External links
90 Jahre Flugplatz Bonn-Hangelar
(history of Bonn-Hangelar mentioning Raab-Katzenstein, German)
{{Raab-Katzenstein aircraft
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Companies based in Kassel