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Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation

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Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation
IndustryAerospace
FoundersBert Kinner
Defunct1937 (1937)
FateBankrupt in 1937
SuccessorO.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

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Aircraft

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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

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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

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  1. ^ John Underwood (Winter 1969). "The Quiet Professor". Air Progress Sport Aircraft.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Kinner". www.enginehistory.org. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
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