Grob Aircraft Designations

[hesham]

Grob aircraft :

G-110 : was two seat low wing light aircraft with fixed tricycle
u/c and powered by one 118 hp Lyc O-235-M1 engine.
G-111 : special version G-109B certificated to FAR.23 standard
with developed GVW.2500 engine.
G-112 : side-by-side two seat GRP trainer developed from G-110
Gruci form tail and short span wings,powered by 90 hp
GVW.2500F1 engine.
G-116 : four seat version of G-115 with 200 hp Lyc IO-360-A engine.
G-140 : four seat version of G-115D as light aircraft.

 

[Stargazer]

New topic recycling some old generic list by hesham. Feel free to add to it!

 

[hesham]

From Airlife's General Aviation and the net;

his all designs are;

G-101,G-102,G-103,G-104,G-109,G-110,G-111,G-112,G-115,G-116,
G-117,G-120,G-125,G-140,G-160,G-180,GF-200,GF-250,GF-300,
GF-350,G-500,G-520,G-600,G-850,CS 77 & Cycrogyro.

 

[riggerrob]

Egrett and Stratos Flyer 2C high altitude research aircraft flown by NASA test pilot Einar Erdvolson.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Something that confuses search engines and LLMs (not helped by some of the former relying on some of the latter) is the fact that, for most of it's existence, Groß Aerospace, along with the alternate German name for the company, Groß-Worke, used the Middle High German derived spelling of the name Grob.

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...tt-1-d-500-g-520-strato-g-850-strato-c2.8901/

 

[Stargazer]

Something that confuses search engines and LLMs (not helped by some of the former relying on some of the latter) is the fact that, for most of it's existence, Groß Aerospace, along with the alternate German name for the company, Groß-Worke, used the Middle High German derived spelling of the name Grob.

I'm afraid you got this one totally wrong, my friend... The name of the company is and has always been GROB, with a proper "b", simply because it was created by Dr. Burkhart Grob. Simple as that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob_Aircraft

 

[Grey Havoc]

I'm pretty sure though that back in the 1990s I read that his name, and that of his company, was Groß?

 

[Arjen]

German ß or eszett, can be typographically replaced with the double-s digraph ⟨ss⟩ if the ß-character is unavailable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ßGrob-Werke founded in 1926 by Ernst Grob, parent company of Burkhart Grob Luft- und Raumfahrt GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob-WerkeBurkhart Grob led Grob-Werke from 1952.

Several changes of owners over the years.

In June 2025, German defence technology company Helsing SE agreed to acquire Grob from H3 Aerospace, aiming to integrate its AI and software with Grob's manufacturing to develop AI-powered reconnaissance and combat aircraft.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob_AircraftAlways Grob, never Groß.

 

[Stargazer]

Always Grob, never Groß.

Thanks my friend for confirming this.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Interesting. Unfortunately I lost the aviation magazines that I read about the name originally being Groß in a shed disaster a number of years back, so I'm not sure if I possibly misremembered or did they get it wrong. I'll leave the couple of relevant tags in for the moment.