Foreign planes built under license
SET designs

S.E.T.

( Societatea pentru exploatari tehnice )

SET stands for "The technical development society" and it was the second largest aircraft factory from "the three giants" : IAR, SET and ICAR.
The SET factory was the very first one from this trio,being fonded in early 1923 as a manufacturing plant . It had its own aircraft repair section, specialized in maintaining and repairing Proto planes, with roots in an Austro-Hungarian plant situated near the city of Arad. However, in the first years of it existance it was in a constant struggle to survive, being forced to build small boats or even furniture. In early 1925, the aeronautical division, which had been transfered at Bucharest in order to be close to the main SET facilities, decided to produce a trainer aircraft, based on the Proto series. Project was headed by SET's leading engineer, Stefan Protopopescu. To encourage SET's efforts, the Ministry of War placed an order for two protoypes in May 1925.
 
From here on, the road was open and a 20 year-long period, marked with succeses as well as failures, followed. After the air force ordered some 50 various trainers in December 1930, the decision was made to convert the SET to a exclusively aircraft factory. In order to achieve this, machine tools and much other state-of-the-art equipment was imported, and an special paint shop was established, whilst the number of workers almost doubled.During its history the SET company produced many types of planes, both "domestic" designs and license-built aircrafts. Although they never had the size or the resources of their IAR rivals, SET engineers still kept doing their job as well as they could.
After the second world war, the SET had a somewhat similar fate with IAR. Despite the fact that the SET plant had not been completely stripped of its machining equipment ( a lot of it was however " confiscated " by the Russians ), the factory was in the end switched to other tasks, unrelated to aircraft production, in 1946.

Aircraft types manufactured by the SET ( including projects & prototypes )

Romanian - designed aircraft
Foreign aircraft built under license
PROTO SET-3 / SET 31 trainer
Fleet F-10G trainer ( also produced by IAR and ICAR )
SET-7 advanced trainer / reconnaissance
Nardi FN-305 advanced trainer ( also produced by IAR )
SET-XV fighter
IAR-27 advanced trainer
IAR-39 reconnaissance / light bomber

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