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Tipsy

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Tipsy Aircraft Company Ltd.

Belgium
Formed in late 1930s together with Tipsy Aircraft Company Ltd in U.K. to build ultralight aircraft designed by E. O.Tips and previously manufactured by Avions Fairey.

Tipsy Aircraft Company Ltd. was formed 1937 at Hanworth Air Park. Middlesex, to license build Anglo-Belgian lightplanes of E. 0. Tips. Continued production postwar but closed down in 1952.

Pre-war products at Gosselies were single-seat S2 and two-seat B or B-2 (open cockpits) and BC (enclosed cabin). B-2 revived post-war as Tipsy Trainer, and BC as Belfair (from Belgian Fairey), together with new design of Junior in 1946 and Nipper in 1957. Production of Nipper taken over by Cobelavia in 1961, and by Nipper Aircraft Ltd in 1966.

Timmins Aviation Ltd

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Canada
Transport aircraft repair and overhaul works at Montreal International Airport which in early/mid-1960s produced a “general aviation” conversion of the Catalina amphibian. Aircraft and Texaco Sky Service Divisions merged on January 1,1967 with Atlantic Aviation of Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.

Timm Aircraft Corp

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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.