Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp was an airplane and engine manufacturer, founded, in the mid-1920s, in
Glendale, California
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California
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,
United States
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, 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
Engines
References
External links
Aerofiles"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
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Glendale, California