title: Kinner Playboy
text: # Kinner Playboy
  
  The Kinner R Playboy was a 1930s American two-seat sporting monoplane built by Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The Playboy was a two-seat (side-by-side) sporting monoplane designed by Max B. Harlow and built by the Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation in 1933. Originally built with an enclosed cockpit the sole R was modified to have an open cockpit as the Kinner R-1 Playboy. Production aircraft were designated Kinner R-5 Playboy. one of the 12 built being supplied to the China Aviation Assn (Shanghai), fitted with a 210 hp (157 kW) Kinner C-5 engine. The Center for Freedom and Flight in Vacaville, California has one of the two remaining aircraft on display.
  
  ## Variants
  
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  ### Kinner R Playboy
  
      The original closed cockpit version of the Playboy.
  
  ### Kinner R-1 Playboy
  
      The R modified to have an open cockpit.
  
  ### Kinner R-5 Playboy
  
      The production version with enclosed cockpit, 12 aircraft were built.
  
  ## Specifications (R-5)
  
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  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: 2
  * Length: 24 ft 2 in (7.37 m)
  * Wingspan: 32 ft 9 in (9.98 m)
  * Gross weight: 809 lb (367 kg)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Kinner R-5 5-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 160 hp (120 kW)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed metal propeller
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 138 mph (222 km/h, 120 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 125 mph (201 km/h, 109 kn)
  * Stall speed: 55 mph (89 km/h, 48 kn)
  * Range: 600 mi (970 km, 520 nmi)
  * Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
  