The Timm Aircoach, also called the Timm Coach and the Golden Shell Special, was a custom-built, high-capacity, high altitude aircraft for charter flights.[2]
Aircoach | |
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Role | Cabin biplane |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | O.W. Timm Aircraft Company[1] |
Designer | Otto Timm |
Introduction | September 1928 |
Number built | 1 |
The Aircoach was built in a shop at Glendale Airport, where Otto and Wally Timm had a shop. Al Menasco had a shop nearby where he modified engines. The Aircoach used a Menaso modified Salmson engine.
The Aircoach was a single engine, conventional landing gear equipped biplane with an open cockpit for two pilots and enclosed passenger cabin. The fuselage was made of welded steel tubing with plywood covering.[3]
Roscoe Turner flew the underpowered Shell Special Golden Shell twice, attempting endurance records. Each flight resulted in damage and the efforts were abandoned.[3]
Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928,[4] Aerofiles:Timm[5]
General characteristics
Performance
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