Victor Roos

Victor H. Roos (April 26, 1888 to October 6, 1964) was an American entrepreneur and the founder or co-founder of several early aircraft companies. In 1917 he was a distributor of Harley Davidson pedal cycles in Omaha, Nebraska, becoming one of the largest distributors in the Midwest. In 1922, with partner A. H. Fetters, he bought the aviation assets of the Maryland Pressed Steel Company and formed the Roos-Bellanca company, also known as the Omaha Aircraft Company, to build Giuseppe Bellanca's monoplane design. In September 1927 Clyde Cessna split from Walter Beech to form Cessna-Roos Aircraft, in which Roos became the second largest shareholder, and Roos resigned one month into the partnership, selling his interest back to Cessna.