The 1911 Kiraly-Berkovics monoplane was designed and built by Andor Kiraly, Berkovics was Contributor and/or Pilot, in Hungary.
Span: 39’4″
Weight empty: 573 lbs
Kiraly-Berkovics 1911 monoplane
Aircraft
Kinner Kin Air
W.B.Kinner, son of the Kinner Fleet designer and a Captain with Saturn Airways, completed a fifteen year homebuilt project designed so it could be built in his garage.
The wings are metal and plywood, and the fuselage is plywood with fibreglass cowl and turtledeck.
Kin Air
Engine: Lycoming O-290-G4, 125 hp
Wingspan: 16 ft 6 in
Length: 14 ft 6 in
Height: 5 ft
Empty weight: 705 lb
Kinner B-2R / Timm 160
Timm acquired the production rights to the Kinner B-2R and produced four as the Timm 160 (ATC 617), including NC14200. The Timm 160 was a 1937 open cockpit low wing monoplane.
Engine: 160hp Kinner R-5
Wingspan: 34’5″
Length: 24’7″
Useful load: 803 lb
Max speed: 132 mph
Cruise speed: 120 mph
Stall: 45 mph
Range: 460 mi
Seats: 2
Kinner Invader
During 1937 company still offered six types of engine and was working on twin-engined Invader, but in 1938 was in receiver’s hands, though continuing operations under control of a trustee.
Kinner Envoy / XRK-1
Envoy was scaled-up Playboy seating four. Three Envoys acquired by U.S. Navy as XRK-1 were not experimental, but staff transports.
Kinner Sportster / Sportwing
Kinner Airplane and Motor Corp. introduced an airplane of its own design in 1932. The side-by-side two-seat Sportster series of low wing taildraggers was powered by 100-hp Kinner five-cylinder radial engines. Some have been repowered with the 125-hp Kinner. The aircraft employed a mixed construction with the conventional fabric-covered wooden wings and fabric-covered steel-tube fuselage combination.
The Sportwing was a refined version with eight built circa 1935.
Engine 100-hp Kinner
Seats 2.
Gross wt. 1,875 lb.
Empty wt. 1,218lb
Top speed 104 mph
Cruise 90 mph.
Initial climb rate 800 fpm.
Ceiling 14,000 ft.
Range 340 miles
Kinner R-5 Playboy
Another version of the Sporster, named the Playboy, was a cabin model powered by a 160-hp Kinner. It featured wire-braced rather than strut-braced wings; otherwise, construction was essentially the same.
A total of eight were manufactured in 1935 by Kinner.
Engine: Kinner 5 cyl, 150 hp.
Max speed SL: 138 mph.
Cruise: 125 mph.
Wing span: 32 ft 9 in.
Empty wt: 1461 lb.
MAUW: 2270 lb.
Kinner Courier
A two-seat parasol monoplane of late 1920s.
Kinner Airplane & Motor Co
Formed in 1919. Known chiefly for its air-cooled radial engines. Aircraft designed by the company round its own engines included Courier two-seat parasol monoplane of late 1920s. In 1930s was producing Sportster strut-braced low-wing monoplane with open side-by-side seats. Sportwing was refined version, Playboy was wire-braced and enclosed and Envoy was scaled-up Playboy seating four. Three Envoys acquired by U.S. Navy as XRK-1 were not experimental, but staff transports. During 1937 company still offered six types of engine and was working on twin-engined Invader, but in 1938 was in receiver’s hands, though continuing operations under control of a trustee.
1920s-1935:
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Kingsford Smith KS.3 Cropmaster
The 1959 Cropmaster was a low-wing monoplane, modified from the CAC Wackett.
Engine: 1 x 170hp Warner Super Scarab
Wing area: 17.6 sq.m / 189.44 sq ft
Cruise speed: 158 km/h / 98 mph
