Timm Collegiate
Introduction 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  and  During their lives, several were re-fitted with different powerplants.
Operational history During their operational lives, several of 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 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.
Variants (Source : Aerofiles and FAA Registry); K-90: c/n 102  Anzani 10: ''NC887E '' stored in Oregon in 2009; K-100: c/n 101  Kinner K-5 ''NC337'', later re-engined to a model C-165 with a  Comet 7-E. On display at HARM in 2009.; TW-120: c/n 106  to  Western L-7.''NC945Y''. No longer extant. ; M-150: c/n 105  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 with Continental A-70.''NC337''. On display at HARM in 2017.; TC-165: c/n 104  Continental A-70.''NX16E''. No longer extant. ; C-165: c/n 101 K-100 re-engined with  Comet 7-E. Later re-engined with 150 h.p McClatchie Panther. ; C-165: c/n 102 K-90 re-engined with  Comet 7-E.; C-170: c/n 103  Curtiss Challenger, later re-fitted with  Curtiss Challenger. ''NC888E'' stored in Oregon in 2009.; C-185: c/n 103  Curtiss Challenger, ''NC888E'' modified from C-170.
Specifications (M-100)
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