Kinner Envoy
| C-7 Envoy | |
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| Kinner XRK-1 of the United States Navy | |
| Role | Four-seat cabin monoplane |
| Manufacturer | Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation |
| Designer | Max Harlow and Harold Webb |
| First flight | 1934 |
| Introduction | 1934 |
| Status | no remaining examples |
| Primary users | United States Navy civil owner pilots |
| Produced | 1934-1936 |
| Number built | 8 |
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The Kinner C-7 Envoy was a 1930s American four-seat cabin monoplane built by Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation.
Design and development
The Envoy was a four-seat version of the Sportwing. It had low wings fitted with wire bracing from fuselage points just below the cabin windows. The fixed tailwheel undercarriage was fitted with streamlined spats. The low-set tailplane was braced by wires from the middle of the fin.
Four civil examples were completed from 1934. These were fitted with a 300 h.p. Kinner C-7 engine and were sold to civil pilot owners. . The civil aircraft were followed in 1936 by three aircraft for the United States Navy (USN) for use in communications work and designated XRK-1.[1] The USN machines served until the early years of World War II. The Imperial Japanese Navy evaluated a single example as the LXK.
When they were delivered the USN examples were fitted with a 340 h.p. Kinner R-1044-2 engine, but one example used for VIP transport was later fitted with a 400 h.p. Pratt & Whitney R-985-38 radial engine.[2]
The C-7 was the last of Kinner's production models.[3]
Operators
Specifications (XRK-1)
Sources : Swanborough, 1990, p. 502 and Aerofiles General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 4
- Length: 28 ft 7 in ( m)
- Wingspan: 39 ft 9 in ( m)
- Empty weight: 2550 lb ( kg)
- Gross weight: 4000 lb ( kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Kinner R-1044-2, 340 hp (254 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 171 mph ( km/h)
- Cruise speed: 150 mph ( km/h)
- Range: 700 miles ( km)
See also
- Related lists
- List of military aircraft of the United States
- List of military aircraft of the United States (naval)
References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Swanborough, Gordon; Bowers, Peter M (1990). United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books. ISBN 0-87021-792-5.
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). Orbis Publishing.
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