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. 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.Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, pp. 121, 125-6, Cypress, CA, 2013. .
Products
Aircraft 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 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.
References
External links
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