Timm Aerocraft 2AS

Aerocraft 2AS
The sole surviving Timm Aerocraft 2AS preserved at the Iowa Aviation Museum at Greenfield, Iowa in 2006
Role Primary training aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Wally Timm Company, Aetna Aircraft Corp
First flight 1941
Status one surviving aircraft
Number built 6
Developed from Kinner Sportwing

The Aerocraft 2AS is a tandem-seat training aircraft developed from the Kinner Sportwing.

Design and development

Timm formed the Wally Timm Company in Glendale, California.[1] He purchased the rights to the Kinner Sportwing, a side-by-side monoplane training aircraft and modified it as a tandem-seat trainer to compete for the Civilian Pilot Training Program build-up prior to World War II. The prototype received ATC# 733 on January 1, 1941. The Timm Aerocraft 2AS lost out to a Fairchild design. The design was sold to Aetna Aircraft, with only six examples produced.[2][3]

The Aerocraft is a conventional landing gear equipped, strut-braced, low-winged monoplane with open cockpit tandem seating and a Kinner R-5 radial engine. The fuselage is welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering. The wing uses wooden spars and ribs with fabric covering.[4]

Operational history

The prototype aircraft was test flown by longtime Timm associate Frank Clarke in 1941.[5]

An Aetna 2AS won the Antique Champion award at the 1985 EAA Airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[6]

The sole surviving Timm 2AS, the fourth to be built, is preserved in an airworthy condition at the Iowa Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame located at Greenfield, Iowa.[7]


Specifications (Timm Aerocraft 2AS )

Data from Sport Aviation

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Related development


References

Notes
  1. Aero Digest, Volume 40, 1942.
  2. Juptner 1993, p. 123.
  3. Underwood 2006, p. 102.
  4. Sport Aviation, August 1963, p. 21.
  5. Underwood 2006, p. 102.
  6. Sport Aviation, October 1985, p. 57.
  7. Ogden, 2007, p. 266
Bibliography
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  • Juptner, Joseph P. U.S. Civil Aircraft Series, Volume 8. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1993. ISBN 978-0830643738.
  • Ogden, Bob. Aviation Museums and Collections of North America. Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. 2007. Tonbridge, Kent. ISBN 0-85130-385-4.
  • Underwood, John. Grand Central Air Terminal. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-73854-682-8.
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