Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation
| Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| resolution | 1937 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Glendale , California |
| management | Bert Kinner |
| Branch | Aircraft construction |
The Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp was an American manufacturer of aircraft and aircraft engines . The company was founded by Bert Kinner in Glendale , California in the mid-1920s . Its chief engineer was Max B. Harlow , who later founded the Harlow Aircraft Company . In 1937 the company became insolvent and the aircraft construction division was sold to the OW Timm Aircraft Company . The engine division was converted into Kinner Motor Inc in 1938 , which was also closed in 1946. In 1941, Kinner was the largest manufacturer of aircraft engines on the US west coast .
Products
Planes
- Kinner K1 Airster
- Presented the mid-1920s, driven by a three cylinder radial engine with 66 hp (49 kW), Amelia Earhart first plane, subsequent copies received because of their torso from plywood the nickname Crackerbox .
- Kinner Sportster K-1 and B-1
- Presented in 1933, powered by a five-cylinder radial engine with outputs between 100 HP (74 kW) and 125 HP (92 kW), several dozen of them were built, some of which are still airworthy today.
- Kinner Sportwing B-2
- Introduced in 1933, continued after the company's bankruptcy and named Timm 2SA .
- Kinner Playboy R-1
- Introduced in 1933, two-seater monoplane .
- Kinner Envoy C-7
- Introduced in 1934, four-seater with a Kinner C-7 engine developing 300 hp (221 kW). Was sold to both private buyers and the United States Navy (under the designation XRK-1). Last model from Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation.
Engines
- Kinner K-5
- Radial engine with 100 HP (74 kW)
- Kinner B-5
- Radial engine with 125 HP (92 kW)
- Kinner R-5
- Radial engine with 160 HP (118 kW)
- Kinner C-5
- Radial engine with 245 HP (180 kW), military designation R-720 .
- Kinner C-7
- Radial engine with 340 HP (250 kW), military designation R-1045-2 .
Web links
Commons : Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Underwood: The Quiet Professor . In: Air Progress Sport Aircraft . 1969 (English).
- ^ Diana T. Parker: Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II . Cypress, California 2013, ISBN 978-0-9897906-0-4 , pp. 121, 125, 126 (English).