Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation
A Kinner Sportwing in the magazine L'Aerophile in October 1935 | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Founders | Bert Kinner |
| Defunct | 1937 |
| Fate | Bankrupt in 1937 |
| Successor | O.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. 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.