Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp was an airplane and engine manufacturer, founded, in the mid-1920s, in

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. The engine department was rearranged as ''Kinner Motor Inc'' in 1938, but collapsed in 1946. Kinner became the West Coast's largest producer of aircraft engines in 1941.Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II,'' pp. 121, 125-6, Cypress, CA, 2013. .

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"Wings Of Airplane Fold Up In Three Minutes"
Kinner K-5 Sportster with optional wing fold, ''Popular Mechanics,'' March 1934
"Air Riddles and The Answers"
Kinner Courier, ''Popular Mechanics'', February 1930 page 277 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinner Airplane and Motor Corporation Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States Companies based in Glendale, California