Svenska Aero
The Svenska Aero AB was a Swedish aircraft manufacturer based in Lidingö . The company was founded on September 10, 1921 by Carl Clemens Bücker with the purpose of building parts and aircraft for the Caspar-Werke and Heinkel under license. The reason was to circumvent the German aircraft construction ban imposed by the Allies after the loss of the First World War . The company was sold to ASJA in 1932 .
history
Following the intercession of Bückers, who was an advisor and flyer in the Swedish Navy at the time, negotiations were held with the Caspar Works in April 1921 about the possibility of delivering German aircraft to the Swedish armed forces. Ernst Heinkel, a designer at Caspar, and some fitters went to Sweden to monitor production there. The components for the first ten Caspar SI (HE 1) float planes were smuggled to Sweden by them and assembled there. After Bücker's intervention, it was decided to test all other Caspar Heinkel models in Sweden, if possible to build them under license and sell them to the Swedish Air Force. From the mid-1920s, people also wanted to manufacture their own designs. Sven Blomberg was hired as head of construction. He was followed in 1930 by Anders Johan Andersson . Svenska Aero is said to have been entered in the Swedish commercial register on September 23, 1921, but this was not the case. Bücker continued to function as one-flyer, but at the same time as operations director. In June 1926 ten SI were secretly delivered to the Seeflugzeug-Versuchsanstalt GmbH, the camouflage name for the German naval aviators, in Warnemünde. Until around 1928, military aircraft were built and tested for the German Air Force, in some cases even by Caspar in Warnemünde himself.
Although six aircraft designs of their own were completed, these were hardly satisfactory. A financial crisis broke out and ASJA was able to take over the business in 1932.
In total, only 58 aircraft were made, some of which were exported to Latvia and Norway .
Types manufactured under license
- Heinkel HE 1
- Heinkel HE 2
- Heinkel HE 4 (5 aircraft)
- Heinkel HE 5 (14 aircraft)
- Heinkel HD 19 (5 aircraft)
- Heinkel HD 24 (6 aircraft)
- Heinkel HD 35 (1 aircraft)
Own constructions
- Svenska Aero SA-10 Pirate (2 planes)
- Svenska Aero SA-11 Jaktfalken (1 aircraft)
- Svenska Aero SA-12 Skolfalken (1 aircraft)
- Svenska Aero SA-13 Övningsfalken (1 aircraft)
- Svenska Aero SA-14 Jaktfalken II (11 aircraft)
- Svenska Aero SA-15 , only prototype, taken over by ASJA
