| Walter chechila, e-mail, 27.06.2016 03:45 I Rember when I was about 13or 14 yrs old I would wash airplanes at the old Benedict airport now a tank farm so I could get rides in their Tim I loved it. the air port was in Delaware County Pa behind the Booths corner farmers market. reply |
| Wayne Marquardt, e-mail, 01.03.2016 10:44 My father Robert Marquardt owned one for @ 20 years.He was the builder and owner of the Flying M Ranch in Germansville ,PA He loved to fly it to local air shows,considering there were none like it any where near by.He hated to sell it .It was a little hard for him to get in and out of it The Navy number on the side it was 360. Registration was N66650 .It was red and white.The fellow who bought it had painted back to its original color of Navy yellow.Thats all for now. reply |
| Bob Kusterer, e-mail, 20.05.2014 21:50 Our glider club (White Sands Soaring Assn, Alamogordo, NM)) used to use one of these as a tow plane. It was replaced with a PT-23. As far as I know, the Timm wings are still hanging on the hangar wall. The joke was that the integrity of the Timm was entirely dependent on the termites holding hands. reply |
| Roger A. Keeney, e-mail, 29.01.2014 14:25 At the end of WWII my Dad left Douglas and started Acme Aicraft at the Lomita flip Strip, a USAAF P38training base. Shortly thereafter, a number o Timm N2T-1s arrived and the guys that flew them really lifed them. Of course at the time I was all grown up to the ripe old age ten so Did get rides but they never let me fly. I couldn't see out! This was around 1945 &46. I did get to play on some derelict P 38's and A20's though. reply |
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| Bob Kennedy, e-mail, 14.03.2013 03:01 Does anyone have a Timm c /n to BuNo. tie-up? Or know the BuNo. for Timm N2T-1 N7112 c /n. 329? reply |
| Tom O'Rourke, e-mail, 06.02.2013 05:34 As a grade school kid I sometimes played in a derelect plane that looked very similar to this at Rubincom Field in Hazelcrest Ill, in the early 1950's. I know it had an inertial starter because of the big crank stored under the cushion of the pilot's seat. I thought it had a sliding plexiglass canopy, but I now can't be sure. Maybe the canopy was added by a private owner. reply |
| Dennis Gronquist, e-mail, 24.11.2012 22:04 My father, Paul Gronquist, owned one of these. He and my oldest brother were killed in it on Dec. 17, 1948 when they went down north of Phillipsburg, KS. reply |
| Arthur P. Loring, Jr., e-mail, 04.10.2012 02:24 I flew this aircraft cerca 1954 /55 at Buchanan Field in Concord Calif. while in college. Some years later I became a Naval aviator. I've never forgotten the N2T1. Unfortunately, some time after I flew it the elevator spar developed dry rot and it was scrapped. reply |
| Klaatu83, e-mail, 25.02.2012 22:28 This unusual airplane was designed as a primary trainer, and considerable numbers were sold to the U.S. Navy during World War II. The fact that the airplane's structure was composed of "non-strategic materials" (i.e., no steel, aluminum or other light alloys) made it an attractive alternative to other prospective types. The Tutor's monocoque airframe was fabricated out of a special plastic-impregnated plywood material, patented by Timm, which was known as "Duramold". reply |
| Del Hanson, e-mail, 12.05.2011 09:21 My father worked at Timm at Van Nuys airport before he joined the Marines! reply |
| Gene Jacobs, e-mail, 08.12.2010 15:10 I flew this airplane in Naval Primary Training (late 1943) at Bumker Hill, Indiana where it was used for formation flight training. We had no problems with it during the three months I was there. reply |
| Fred Martin, e-mail, 27.09.2010 04:18 I leased a Timm and used it on the G.I.bill training students at Lakeside Airport, Granite City, Ill in 1948 and 49. It was owned by Walter Loefell from St. Louis, MO. After on instructional flight on Acrobatics I parked it on the flight line and the rudder fell off due to dry rot. It was N69823 reply |
| Bradford Hall, e-mail, 28.06.2010 20:10 I regularly flew a N2T1 in 1946 that belonged to a friend. It was a fun airplane to fly though it took an unusually long ground run to take off, then had a good rate of clime reply |
| john drews, e-mail, 21.07.2009 06:37 i am flying a timm n2t-1 that i restored and find it a nice flying aircraft.faster then a pt-23 and better looking.
the plane is now up for sale. reply |
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| fighter jock, e-mail, 21.02.2009 17:28 These were used in Naval Primary Training Command for awhile but were found to be unsafe. They used an aluminum torque tube for the elevators and the threaded end had a nasty habit of coming uncoupled. A student had one go in and they found him sitting on his chute amid a pile of plywood Timm structure, uhurt and not a scratch. reply |
| Rosel H. Hyde, e-mail, 13.12.2008 00:22 I have flown this aircraft. Where can I find more info on it? reply |
