Built in 1928, the sole Timm Coach NX5499 Golden Shell built was purchased by Roscoe Turner and refitted with 715-gallon fuel tanks for an altitude record attempt, but the flight was never made. The design was based on the Argonaut.
Engine: 250hp Menasco-Salmson B-2
Wingspan: 45’0″
Length: 31’9″
Useful load (in test flight): 2530 lb
Max speed: 112 mph
Cruise: 100 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Seats: 7
One Timm C-170, NC888E, was built, in 1930, and was priced at $6,750.
Originally powered by a 170hp Curtiss Challenger engine, it was refitted with a 185hp Curtiss Challenger under ATC 2-202 as the C-185.
C-170
Engine: 170hp Curtiss Challenger
Useful load: 616 lb
Max speed: 130 mph
Cruise speed: 105 mph
Stall: 37 mph
Range: 500 mi
C-185
Engine: 185hp Curtiss Challenger
Seats: 2
The 1930 Timm C-165 Collegiate (ATC 2-209) was a two place monoplane powered by a 165hp Comet 7-E engine. Two were built: NC337 and NC887E.
One Timm Argonaut, or P Sedan, was built in 1927 for Dr T C Young, chairman of California Aviation Council.
A four seat, cabin biplane, it was powered by a 200hp Renault engine and had a wing span of 35’0″.
The Aerocraft 2AS of 1938 was a Kinner B-2R Sportwing modified to satisfy USAAC’s requirements for a two-place primary trainer. Orders were not placed, but went to the Fairchild PT-19 instead.
Only the one prototype was built, NC14965 c/n 230.
Designed by Wally Timm, Timm Aircraft produced prototype T-840 twin-engined six-seat transport.
The T-840 featured plastic-bonded plywood (Aeromold) construction, tricycle gear, and wing slots.
First flying in February 1938, only one was built, NX17390.
Engines: 2 x Wright R-975E, 420hp
Wingspan: 50’0″
Length: 30’6″
Useful load: 384 lb
Max speed: 207 mph
Cruise speed: 193 mph
Stall: 60 mph
Range: 790 mi
Seats: 6-10
Several experimental planes were produced during 1911-20, but data are lacking. Company logo proclaims 1911 as starting year.
Formed at Van Nuys, California, USA, circa 1922 as the O W (Otto William) Timm Aircraft Corp,
901 N San Fernando Rd, Glendale CA.
c.: 1928: Timm Airplane Co.
Was inactive in aircraft manufacture for several years, but in late 1930s produced prototype T-840 twin-engined six-seat transport.
1935: Timm Aircraft Co.
1937: Acquired Kinner Aircraft
1939: Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys CA.
It developed a plastic-bonded plywood Aeromold, applying this first to the S-160-K two-seat primary trainer of 1940, which was built in Second World War as N2T-1 trainer for U.S. Navy.
Timm also built 434 Waco CG-4A cargo gliders, and did wartime subcontract work for Harlow, Lockheed, Vultee and other companies.
1941: Sold to Aetna Aircraft Corp, Los Angeles.
Charles Lindbergh’s first airplane ride was with barnstormer Timm.
Designed by Owen Tilbury, the 1932 SF-1 Flash was a racer for the Nationals registered NR12931 and piloted by Art Carnahan.
It was stored in a barn in 1935, recovered in 1975 and restored by the Bloomington (IL) EAA Chapter, to go on exhibit at the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington.
Engine: Church-Henderson, 45hp
Wingspan: 14’8″ (later increased to 17’10”)
Length: 11’10” (later 12’5″)
Seats: 1
The Tilbury S-10 Skywayman was built in 1929, powered by a 32hp Ford, and Henderson. Registered N6N/N827E c/n TW-1313, it was a single place, open cockpit monoplane.
Owen R Tilbury,
Normal IL.
USA
Tilbury & (Clarence) Fundy,
Bloomington IL or IN.
USA
Airplane builder circa 1929-32.
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