Timm Collegiate Explained

The Timm Collegiate was a series of American-built two-seat light aircraft of the late 1920s.

Design and development

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 900NaN0 and 1850NaN0 During their lives, several were re-fitted with different powerplants.^[1]

Operational history

During their operational lives, several of the six Collegiates were fitted with replacement powerplants, giving rise to new designation numbers.^[1] 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.^[1]

The FAA civil aircraft register recorded two surviving airworthy examples as at August 2009. One 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.^[2] Two other examples are in long term storage in a private collection in Springfield, Oregon.^[3]

Variants

(Source : Aerofiles and FAA Registry)

K-90: c/n 102 900NaN0 Anzani 10: NC887E stored in Oregon in 2009

K-100: c/n 101 1000NaN0 Kinner K-5 NC337, later re-engined to a model C-165 with a 1650NaN0 Comet 7-E. On display at HARM in 2009.

TW-120: c/n 106 1200NaN0 to 1300NaN0 Western L-7. NC945Y. No longer extant.

M-150: c/n 105 1500NaN0 McClatchie Panther. NC279V privately owned in California in 2009. Two further examples later converted to this standard.

TC-165: c/n 101 C-165 re-engined with1650NaN0 Continental A-70. NC337. On display at HARM in 2017.

TC-165: c/n 104 1650NaN0 Continental A-70. NX16E. No longer extant.

C-165: c/n 101 K-100 re-engined with 1650NaN0 Comet 7-E. Later re-engined with 150 h.p McClatchie Panther.

C-165: c/n 102 K-90 re-engined with 1650NaN0 Comet 7-E.

C-170: c/n 103 1700NaN0 Curtiss Challenger, later re-fitted with 1850NaN0 Curtiss Challenger. NC888E stored in Oregon in 2009.

C-185: c/n 103 1850NaN0 Curtiss Challenger, NC888E modified from C-170.

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Ogden, Bob. Aviation Museums and Collections of North America. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, 2007. .

External links

• Data and photographs of the Timm Collegiate series

Notes and References

1. http://aerofiles.com/_timm.html "Timm aircraft."
2. Ogden 2007, p. 331.
3. Ogden2007, p. 442.