Timm N2T-1 – Ed and Dustin Newberg Keep One of The World’s First Composite Aircraft Flying

Matt Quy banks Ed and Dustin Newberg's Timm N2T-1 Tutor above the Minnesota countryside. The N2T-1 is a relatively unknown World War II primary trainer, eclipsed by the far more numerous Fairchild PT-19, PT-23 and PT-26 as well as the Ryan PT-22.

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Otto William Timm gave Charles Lindbergh “his first ride in an airplane.” It’s a fact Ed Newberg is fond of relating. Like Newberg, Timm was a native Minnesotan, born in Lakeville, a suburb of Minneapolis about two hours east of Hector, the farming town near where Newberg grew up. Timm was a pioneer aviator who built and flew a replica Curtiss Pusher in 1911 and went on to design and build airplanes under his own...

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