Rohr, Inc.

Rohr, Inc. is an

Raytheon Technologies;^[1] it was founded in 1940 by Frederick H. Rohr

Rohr's main product line are

, and mounting pylons for military and commercial aircraft. It also consults on integrating and managing its designs with the other aircraft systems.

Other products include auxiliary power units, flight control surfaces, and other aircraft parts.

History

Frederick H. Rohr, creator of the fuel tanks for Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, founded Rohr Aircraft Corporation on August 6, 1940 with the help of Reuben H. Fleet after approaching him for a job. The company incorporated as Rohr Corporation in 1969, and changed its name to Rohr Industries, Inc. in 1971.^[2]

In the 1960s and 1970s, Rohr Industries made a foray into mass transit equipment manufacturing. It manufactured railcars for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the first 300 subway cars for the Washington Metro, among others.^[3] It was also the United States license holder of the Aérotrain. In 1970 it produced an experimental Aérotrain design, the TACV, and purchased the rights to the Monocab design and turned it into the ROMAG. In the same year it acquired the Flxible Company, a bus manufacturer, which would produce a Transbus design, which evolved into the Model 870 Advanced Design Bus, as well as the later Flxible Metro, which addressed all of the shortcomings of the Model 870. Rohr divested itself of, or discontinued those programs by the late 1970s.

Rohr Industries became Rohr, Inc. in 1992. It was listed on the

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) purchased Goodrich Corporation and all its divisions. After the acquisition, UTC created an aerospace systems division, United Technologies Aerospace Systems (UTAS), into which all divisions of Goodrich Corporation and UTC's Hamilton Sundstrand divisions were incorporated as one entity. On 26 November 2018, United Technologies announced the completion of its Rockwell Collins acquisition, after which it merged its newly acquired business with UTC Aerospace Systems to form Collins Aerospace

.

UTC merged with the

Raytheon Technologies

. Rohr is a wholly owned unit of the Collins Aerospace division of Raytheon Technologies.

Sales and divestitures

UTC sold its UTC Power unit in early 2013 to Oregon-based

GenCorp for $550 million in mid-2013. Three former Hamilton Sundstrand businesses, Milton Roy, Sullair and Sundyne, were sold to private equity firms BC Partners and The Carlyle Group for $3.46 billion.^[4]

References

^ "Rohr, Inc.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
^ "Frederick H. "Pappy" Rohr". July 7, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
^ Rohr will call it quits Railway Age June 14, 1976 page 46
^ "About ROHR, INC". company profile. Vault. 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.

Bibliography

Rohr, Inc. 10-K for July 31, 1997

External links

Rohr Aircraft Memories

[1] "Rohr, Inc.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-09-04.

[Rohr_Industries,_Inc.-2] "Frederick H. "Pappy" Rohr". July 7, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2015.

[3] Rohr will call it quits Railway Age June 14, 1976 page 46

[ROHR_Strategy-4] "About ROHR, INC". company profile. Vault. 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.

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