Rohr, Inc.

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Rohr, Inc., formerly Rohr Industries, is an aerospace manufacturing company based in Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego. It is a wholly owned unit of the Goodrich Corporation and as such is sometimes referred to as Goodrich Aerostructures Group.

Rohr's main product line are aerostructures, such as engine-related components, including engine nacelles, thrust reversers, and mounting pylons for both military and commercial aircraft. It also consults on integrating and managing its designs with the aircraft's other systems.

Other products include APUs, flight control surfaces, and other aircraft parts.

[edit] History

Fred Rohr, who created the fuel tanks for Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, founded Rohr Aircraft Corporation on August 6, 1940. The company would incorporate as Rohr Corporation in 1969 and change its name to Rohr Industries, Inc. in 1971.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Rohr Industries made a foray into mass transit equipment manufacturing. It manufactured railcars for BART in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the first 300 subway cars for Metro in Washington, D.C. among others (see Washington Metro rolling stock). In 1970 it produced an experimental aérotrain design. In the same year it acquired the Flxible Company, a bus manufacturer, which would produce a Transbus design. Rohr had divested itself of or discontinued these programs by the late 1970s.

Rohr Industries became Rohr, Inc. in 1992. Formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RHR, it was acquired by the BFGoodrich Company in 1997, but remains a separately incorporated company.