Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp was an airplane and engine manufacturer, founded in Glendale, California by Bert Kinner in the mid-1920s. It went bankrupt in 1937 and the aircraft rights were sold to Timm Aircraft Co. The engine department was rearranged as Kinner Motor Inc in 1938, but folded in 1946.
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- Kinner K1 Airster, from around 1920, powered by a 3 cylinder radial engine of 66 hp. Known to be the first aircraft that Amelia Earhart owned. Later specimens nicknamed "Crackerbox" for its plywood fuselage.
- Kinner Sportster K-1 and B-1, 1933, with a 5-cylinder radial engine of 100 horsepower (75 kW) to 125 horsepower (93 kW). Became rather popular and sold in some dozen pcs. A few of them still flying. The Kinner K-5 and B-5 engines were also delivered to a wide variety of other aircraft manufacturers including Monocoupe, Waco, St. Louis Car Company, and Fleet. The design later evolved into the Security Aircraft Company Airster.
- Kinner Sportwing B-2, 1933, after the bankruptcy sold as Timm 2SA.
- Kinner Playboy R-1, 1933, two-seat sports monoplane.
- Kinner Envoy C-7, 1934 with 300 horsepower (220 kW) Kinner C-7 engine, with room for four persons. It was sold to private owner pilots and to the US Navy as XRK-1, and remained in use well into the 1940s. This was the last production model of the Kinners.[1]
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- Kinner B-5
- 125 hp (93 kW) radial engine
- Kinner K-5
- 100 hp (75 kW) radial engine
- Kinner R-5
- 160 hp (119 kW) radial engine
- Kinner C-7
- 340 hp (254 kW) radial engine, military designation R-1045-2.
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