Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation

Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp was an airplane and engine manufacturer, founded in Glendale, California, United States by Bert Kinner in the mid-1920s. Kinner's chief engineer was Max B. Harlow who went on to found 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 folded in 1946. Kinner became the West Coast's largest producer of aircraft engines in 1941.[2]

Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation
IndustryAerospace
FateBankrupt in 1937
SuccessorO.W. Timm Aircraft Company
FoundersBert Kinner
Defunct1937
Headquarters
Glendale 
,
United States of America 
Key people
Max B. Harlow

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

(in chronological order)

Kinner K-5
100 hp (75 kW) radial engine
Kinner B-5
125 hp (93 kW) radial engine
Kinner R-5
160 hp (119 kW) radial engine
Kinner C-5
245 hp (183 kW) radial engine, military designation R-720.
Kinner C-7
340 hp (254 kW) radial engine, military designation R-1045-2.
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References
  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.
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