Jean A. Roché

Jean Alfred Roché (1894 - 1981) is an American aeronautical engineer of French origin.

Born with Royan on August 12th, 1894, graduate engineer in mechanics of the University of Columbia, Jean A. Roché directed the research department of Huntington Aircraft Company, Garden City, Long Island in 1915. After a passage at Polson Iron Works with Toronto, Canada in 1916, it was assisting of the chief engineer at Standard Airplane Co, Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1917 he became technical adviser with the Division of the Material of the Air Body, a station which he will occupy until his retirement in 1960.

Become chief of the technical advisers and aeronautical engineers of the US Army Air Force Material Command in Langley Field, Virginia, and adviser near NACA, it will work during the Second world war in close cooperation with the industrialists suppliers of the Air Force and the laboratories of NACA to Langley.

Jean A. Roché deposited 20 patents relating to various aspects of the construction of aircraft, and took part in the development of many military aircrafts and commercial, but it is especially known general public to have conceived the Aeronca C-2, the first light plane produced in series in the United States.

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