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Raab-Katzenstein was a 1920s German aircraft manufacturer based in Kassel.

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business
Country
Germany
Founded by
AEKKEA-RAAB
Headquarters
Kassel
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Raab-Katzenstein
inception
1925-00-00
significant person
Gerhard Fieseler
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Raab-Katzenstein was a 1920s German aircraft manufacturer based in Kassel.

==History== The main character of the company was its designer Gerhard Fieseler. Following World War I, 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 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.

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