Frederick H. Rohr, creator of the fuel tanks for
Charles Lindbergh's
Spirit of St. Louis, founded
Rohr Aircraft Corporation on August 6, 1940 with the help of
Reuben H. Fleet after approaching him for a job. The company incorporated as
Rohr Corporation in 1969, and changed 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
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the
San Francisco Bay Area, and the first 300 subway cars for the
Washington Metro, among others. It was also the United States license holder of the
Aérotrain. In 1970 it produced an experimental Aérotrain design, the TACV, and purchased the rights to the Monocab design and turned it into the
ROMAG. In the same year it acquired the
Flxible Company, a
bus manufacturer, which would produce a
Transbus design, which evolved into the Model 870 Advanced Design Bus, as well as the later
Flxible Metro, which addressed all of the shortcomings of the Model 870. Rohr divested itself of, or discontinued those programs by the late 1970s. Rohr Industries became
Rohr, Inc. in 1992. It was listed on the
New York Stock Exchange under the
ticker symbol RHR, until it merged with the
Goodrich Corporation in 1997 and remained a separately incorporated company as
Goodrich Aerostructures. In August 2012,
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) purchased Goodrich Corporation and all its divisions. After the acquisition, UTC created an aerospace systems division, United Technologies Aerospace Systems (UTAS), into which all divisions of Goodrich Corporation and UTC's Hamilton Sundstrand divisions were incorporated as one entity. On 26 November 2018, United Technologies announced the completion of its
Rockwell Collins acquisition, after which it merged its newly acquired business with UTC Aerospace Systems to form
Collins Aerospace. UTC merged with the
Raytheon Company in April 2020 to form
Raytheon Technologies. Rohr is a wholly owned unit of the Collins Aerospace division of Raytheon Technologies. ==Sales and divestitures==