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Raab-Katzenstein was a 1920s German aircraft manufacturer based in
Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...
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History

The main character of the company was its designer Gerhard Fieseler. Following
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, 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
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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 (also known as the Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe), 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. 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
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factory and renamed it Fieseler Flugzeugbau.


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