The Timm Collegiate was a series of American-built two-seat light aircraft of the late 1920s.
12-684: Otto Timm founded the O.W. Timm Aircraft Corp in 1922 with its base at Glendale, California . The firm changed its name to the Timm Airplane Co in 1928. During 1928 Timm designed the Collegiate series of parasol-winged two-seat light aircraft fitted with fixed tailwheel undercarriage . The six examples built between 1928 and 1930 were powered by a variety of engines of between 90 hp (67 kW) and 185 hp (138 kW) During their lives, several were re-fitted with different powerplants. During their operational lives, several of
24-534: A copy of the Curtiss Pusher , which flew in 1911. Timm started a business flying the aircraft in Pennsylvania with a partner. In 1913, Timm sold the business to his partner and returned to Cicero Field to begin construction of a "conventional" biplane design under contract. The next year he built a second for his own use, and started a cross-country tour that ended on May 25, 1915, when it crashed in
36-580: A field in Magnolia, Minnesota . His aircraft happened to come down in the field of Bert Kinner , who repaired the engine. Kinner was fascinated by the aircraft, and would go on to become an aircraft and aero engine designer as well. Timm then built another design under contract for the Grinnell Aeroplane Company in 1915, later flying it at town fairs around the mideastern region during the summer of 1916. In October 1916, Timm became
48-607: A senior flight instructor at Rockwell Field , San Diego . He remained there during the war, while also building a new trainer biplane known as the Timm Model T-18 . With the ending of the war, Timm moved to Venice, CA and opened the Pacific Aeroplane and Supply Co. , where he started construction of a six-passenger biplane known as the Pacific Hawk . Over a six-week period in 1920, Timm designed and built
60-678: The C-1 racing monoplane, which would win the International Air Tournament in Los Angeles in 1921. In July 1921, Timm traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska to test fly the new Lincoln Standard L.S.5 where he met Charles Lindbergh . In February 1922, Lindbergh had enrolled as a student at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation's flying school and flew for the first time on April 9, 1922, when he took to
72-585: The age of 19, he had established himself as a pioneer aviator. Timm originally started in the aviation field in 1910 when he attempted to build a copy of the Santos-Dumont "Demoiselle" monoplane while living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , although it appears this was never completed. The next year he moved to Cicero Field in Chicago , where a group of aviation enthusiasts had gathered. In Chicago, he built
84-406: The air as a passenger in a two-seat Lincoln Standard "Tourabout" biplane piloted by Timm. Later, on April 16 and 17, Lindbergh, as a student pilot, had two more flights with Timm. The two remained friends, and when Timm built another Curtiss Pusher for film use in 1925, Lindbergh later bought it and stunt-flew it during the 1928 International Air Tournament. He built another one-off design in 1926,
96-671: The name to Timm Aircraft Company in May 1934, and introduced the Timm T-S140 , a high-wing monoplane twin-engine design. In World War II, Timm built planes for both the Army and the Navy, including hundreds of trainers and CG-4 assault gliders. The assault gliders were used to land troops on D-Day. In 1965, Timm was contacted by the TallMantz company to design a "one-off" movie model called
108-461: The six Collegiates were fitted with replacement powerplants, giving rise to new designation numbers. The aircraft served with private pilot owners both pre and post World War II . In 1930, the first Collegiate M-150 NC279V City of Los Angeles set an endurance record of 378 hours in flying the equivalent of 27,677 miles over Rosamond Dry Lake, California. The FAA civil aircraft register recorded two surviving airworthy examples as at August 2009. One
120-644: The two-place monoplane Collegiate . In 1922, Timm founded the O.W. Timm Aircraft Company in Glendale, California . In 1928 the name was changed to the Timm Airplane Co . The company's first design was the Timm Collegiate series of five parasol-winged, twin-seat light aircraft. In California he also produced a large (for the era) passenger biplane, the Timm Coach with an enclosed cabin seating seven and an open cockpit for two pilots. Timm changed
132-572: Was an American barnstormer and aircraft manufacturer of German descent based in California . Charles Lindbergh 's first flight was flown by Timm. Timm partnered at times with his brother Wally Timm who did a lot of flying for the nascent Hollywood movie industry. Timm was born on October 28, 1893, in Lakefield and spent a few years in Windom, Minnesota before moving to pursue aviation. By
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#1732791009596144-730: Was operated by a private owner in California. The other NC337 was owned by Albert I. Stix and is on public display in the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum (HARM) at Dauster Field, Creve Coeur, near St Louis Missouri . Two other examples are in long term storage in a private collection in Springfield, Oregon . (Source : Aerofiles and FAA Registry) Data from Aerofiles General characteristics Performance Otto Timm Otto William Timm (October 28, 1893 – June 29, 1978)
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