TheAEKKEA-RAAB R-29 was aGreek single-seat parasolmonoplanetrainer and/or light fighter developed byAntonius Raab, aGerman aircraft designer, with his Greek partners and was one of the Raab-type aircraft developed in Greece.

The airplane had wooden wings and anElektron (alloy) metal-tubefuselage.^[1] However, there is no exact record for produced numbers. TheR-29 was a new design developed by Raab's Greek company in late 1936 but shared structural characteristics with the preceding R-27 type (a type also first recorded as anAEKKEA-RAAB product byJane's 1935 ed.,^[2] most probably designed earlier by Raab and never produced), which featured an inlineHispano-Suiza 12Y engine, retractableundercarriage and twin machine-guns.^[2]

Export documents to Spain andJane's (1936 ed.) reported it as a fighter, but Raab later described it as a trainer,^[1] which would be borne out by the low powered engine chosen. A batch of these aircraft, along with theTigerschwalbe R-26V/33 (derived from an earlier Raab-Katzenstein model), were to be delivered to theRepublican forces. Components of 30 aircraft were to be produced in Greece and shipped to Spain, where a subsidiary would carry out final assembly. An AEKKEA aircraft engineer, Georgios Pangakis, reported 40 (rather than 30)R-29s shipped to Spain, still missing engines and machine guns, which proved difficult to acquire. According to Raab, the Republicans gave roughly 60 incomplete airframes of both types, along with plans to theSoviets to be shipped back to theUSSR.

The AEKKEA archives were destroyed and there seems to be no surviving images and only the contemporaryJane's provides a written description.

Data from^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Propellers: 2-bladed variable-pitch propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 473 km/h (294 mph, 255 kn)^[2]

Armament

• Guns: 2 × machine guns

• AEKKEA-RAAB R-52
• AEKKEA-RAAB R-33 Tigerschwalbe
• AEKKEA-RAAB R-28
• AEKKEA-RAAB R-27
• AEKKEA-RAAB R-26ν
• AEKKEA-RAAB R-1C Schwalbe II
• PZL P.24
• Gloster Gladiator

Related lists

• List of aircraft of World War II

• L.S. Skartsis and G.A. Avramidis, "Made in Greece", Typorama, Patras, Greece (2003) (republished by the University of Patras Science Park, 2006).
• Rolf Nagel and Thorsten Bauer, "Kassel und die Luftfahrtindustrie seit 1923", A. Bernecker Verlag (2015)
• Grey, C.G., ed. (1935).Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1935. London: Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd.
• Antonius Raab, "Raab Fliegt (Erinnerungen eines Flugpioniers)", Reihe Konkret, Hamburg (1984).

• L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle and Machine Manufacturers 1800 to Present: A Pictorial History", Marathon (2012) (ebook)

• 1930s Greek fighter aircraft
• Aircraft manufactured in Greece