Societatea Pentru Exploatări Tehnice

Societatea Pentru Exploatări Technice or SET ("Technical Development Society") was a Romanian aircraft manufacturer. It was the second biggest Romanian pre-war aircraft manufacturer, after Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR).[1]

Societatea Pentru Exploatări Technice
IndustryAerospace
Founded1932 (1932)
FounderGrigore Zamfirescu
Headquarters
Bucharest
,
Romania

History

The Societatea Pentru Exploatări Tehnice was established in Bucharest in 1923 by Grigore Zamfirescu as a general machinery manufacturing plant. It soon specialised in building aircraft to its founder's design, supplying the Romanian Air Force with trainers during the mid-1930s.[1] At the peak of aircraft production, Zamfirescu changed the company's name to Fabrica de Avioane SET.

In the late 1930s, SET abandoned producing its own designs, and manufactured a number of IAR and foreign types under licence, including the IAR 27, IAR 39, Fleet 10, and Nardi FN.305. In 1938, the company made a deal with the Romanian government that would have seen it relocate its manufacturing facilities to Moldavia, with the government promising to purchase a minimum order of aircraft each year from the new plant. This venture was to have been called "Industria Nationala Aeronautica" ("National Aeronautical Industry"), but it failed to materialise when the Second World War intervened.[1] During the war, SET built Heinkel He 111s under licence.

SET continued to maintain and repair aircraft until the end of World War II, after which it continued business for a time outside the aeronautics industry.

Products
SET 3
SET 7K
Model name First flight Number built Type
SET 2 2[2] Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane
SET 3 1928 Single engine biplane trainer
SET 31 Single engine biplane trainer
SET 7 1931 123 Single engine biplane trainer
SET 4 Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane
SET 41 Single engine biplane trainer
SET XV 1934 1 Single engine biplane fighter
SET 10 1932 2 Single engine biplane trainer
SET FN.305 124 License built single engine monoplane trainer
SET 27 1937 80[1] License built single engine monoplane trainer
SET 39 1937 160 License built single engine biplane light bomber
SET F-10G 1939 80[3] License built single engine biplane trainer

See also

References
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Notes
  1. Gudju, Ion; Iacobescu, Gheorghe; Ionescu, Ovidiu (1974). Romanian Aeronautical Constructions, 1905–1974 (PDF). Bucharest: Military Publishing House. pp. 42–44. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  2. Gudju, Ion; Iacobescu, Gheorghe; Ionescu, Ovidiu (1974). Romanian Aeronautical Constructions, 1905–1974 (PDF). Bucharest: Military Publishing House. p. 108. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  3. Antoniu, Dan; Cicos, George (2007). Romanian Aeronautical Constructions (2nd ed.). Bucharest: Vivaldi. p. 249. ISBN 978-973-150-002-7.

Bibliography
  • Bill, Gunston (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Dénes, Bernád. "Avioane Tricolore". Aviatia. Archived from the original on 16 December 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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