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AEROSTAR is the successor of URA Bacau, continued the tradition of Romanian aviation and builds the future
The mission of the company settled at the establishment of the “Aircraft Repair Plant” Economical Enterprise, its successor AEROSTAR S.A. was maintained and upgraded in general conditions of accession of Romania to NATO and to the European Union, and currently, in order to assure the development of the business, the mission is focused on three main business lines, all from aeronautical and defence field.
The Great Unification Centenary has special meanings in Bacău!
Romania’s Reunification War, 1916-1918, would transform the town of Bacau into the “capital of the national resistance and the headquarters of the victories for the nation’s unification”.
The dramatic and heroic exploits on the battle frontline along the region of Mărăsti, Mărăsesti and Oituz- which saved Romania as a country, had the town of Bacau in commanding position, as the army’s general headquarters had been established in town while Iasi had become the headquarters for the Romanian Government, for the Parliament and the Royal family, the National Bank of Romania and many other institutions.
King Ferdinand’s proclamation towards the army on 23rd March/ 5th April 1917, made on the field of Racaciuni, Bacau, encouraged the soldiers to be worth the “great reward of the victory” promising them to become land-owners after winning the war, as well as the land reform and the universal vote.
Queen Maria, also known as the “mother of the wounded soldiers”, stayed by their side and nursed them in the tens of hospitals in the region, of which only in Bacau there were around six-seven frontline hospitals or lazarets. Thousands of the Great War heroes rest their eternity in this region.
The war air fleet was stationed on the airfield of Gheraesti, a district of Bacau, it was just one of the seven airfields in town.
On 23rd November 1918, a Farman 40 aircraft no. 3240, left from Bacau to Blaj – Câmpia Libertatii (Liberty Field), having the crew consisting of pilot Vasile Niculescu and Captain Victor Precup, to take Moldova’s unification message (historic north-eastern part of Romania)- the
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letter of Ion I.C. Bratianu, the Prime Minister of Romania’s Government in Iasi, to the Central Romanian National Council in Transylvania. The message announced the people in Transylvania that the Romanian battalions were to cross the Carpathians.
The reconfirmation of the national reunification ideal were the hundreds of signatures laid by the people attending, in writing directly on the F40 aircraft’s cloth wings on the morning of 24th November 1918; the people attending the return flight take-off were sending thus their message to Moldova that on 1st December, the Romanian people of Transylvania would unite with the country, when all were to gather in the people’s assembly in Alba Iulia. Under the pressure of the iron tongs of war, Bacau played a decisive role for the fate of the country’s history, when four of the world’s empires collapsed, when fierce battles were fought and when, the peace negotiations, separately or based on the principles stated by Woodrow Wilson, the American president at that time, Europe’s new national states were founded, Romania among them as well. The project of the United Nations League dates back in the same timeperiod, it was the future United Nations Organization.
After years, in 1953, the decision was made to establish an industrial capacity for defence production, which had the meaning of the rebirth of the national aviation industry. URA, the Aircraft Repair Plant of Bacau, was set up near the new airfield, located on the axis of the WW1 Gheraesti airfield. The site of the company was described as being in the countryside suburb Vasile Roaita– former Domnita Maria (Queen Maria), located in the south of Bacau.