Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation
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 A Kinner Sportwing in the magazine L'Aerophile in October 1935 | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Founders | Bert Kinner |
| Defunct | 1937 |
| Fate | Bankrupt in 1937 |
| Successor | O.W. Timm Aircraft Company |
Key people | Max B. Harlow |
Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp was an airplane and engine manufacturer, founded, in the mid-1920s, in Glendale, California, United States, by Bert Kinner, the manager of Kinner Field. Kinner's chief engineer was Max B. Harlow who later founded the Harlow Aircraft Company.[1] It went bankrupt in 1937, and the aircraft rights were sold to O.W. Timm Aircraft Company. The engine department was rearranged as Kinner Motor Inc in 1938, but collapsed in 1946. Kinner became the West Coast's largest producer of aircraft engines in 1941.[2]
Products
[edit]Aircraft
[edit]| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinner Airster | 1920 | Single engine biplane | |
| Kinner Sportster | 1932 | Single engine sport monoplane | |
| Kinner Sportwing | 1933 | Single engine sport monoplane | |
| Kinner Playboy | 1933 | 13 | Single engine sport monoplane |
| Kinner Envoy | 1934 | 8 | Single engine cabin monoplane |
Engines
[edit]| Model name | Configuration | Power |
|---|---|---|
| Kinner K-5 | R5 | 100 hp |
| Kinner B-5 | R5 | 125 hp |
| Kinner R-5 | R5 | 160 hp |
| Kinner C-5 | R5 | 245 hp |
| Kinner C-7 | 340 hp |
Kinner also made the K-1 (1921, radial 3), K-2 (1927, radial 5), and K-3 (modified K-2) engines.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ John Underwood (Winter 1969). "The Quiet Professor". Air Progress Sport Aircraft.
- ^ Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, pp. 121, 125-6, Cypress, CA, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9897906-0-4.
- ^ "Kinner". www.enginehistory.org. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation.
- Aerofiles
- Enthusiasts' page
- Vintage engines
- "Wings Of Airplane Fold Up In Three Minutes" Kinner K-5 Sportster with optional wing fold, Popular Mechanics, March 1934
- "Air Riddles and The Answers" Kinner Courier, Popular Mechanics, February 1930 page 277