Dinn Corporation

Dinn Corporation

Mean Streak at Cedar Point
Status	Defunct
In business	1983 to 1991
Key people	Charles Dinn, Curtis D. Summers
Coasters built	12
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Dinn Corporation, or Dinn Corp., was a wooden roller coaster manufacturer based in West Chester, Ohio, USA. They were in business from 1983 to 1992 and built 12 roller coasters of which five are still operating today. Three of the seven defunct coasters were given steel I-Box track by Rocky Mountain Construction. The other 4 defunct coasters were scrapped and not relocated.

History

Charles J. Dinn was the director of construction, maintenance, and engineering at Kings Island and oversaw construction of The Beast, which opened in 1979. Dinn went on to form his own company in the early 1980s. The company managed the construction of wooden roller coasters in partnership with Curtis D. Summers' company.

Dinn Corporation also built select rides for other manufacturers, including Zoomflume at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, USA.

Construction began on Pegasus at Efteling in late 1990, but Dinn abandoned the project following disagreements with Efteling and ultimately retired in 1991. His daughter, Denise Dinn formed a new company, Custom Coasters International that year. Summers died the following year of a heart attack at the age of 62.

Roller coasters

Name	Park	Country	Opened	Status
Georgia Cyclone	Six Flags Over Georgia	USA	March 1990	Closed 2017; converted by Rocky Mountain Construction into Twisted Cyclone
Hercules	Dorney Park	USA	May 6, 1989	Closed September 1, 2003
Mean Streak	Cedar Point	USA	May 11, 1991	Closed September 16, 2016; converted by Rocky Mountain Construction into Steel Vengeance
Pegasus	Efteling	Netherlands	July 1, 1991	Closed June 19, 2009
Predator	Six Flags Darien Lake	USA	May 1990	Operating
Psyclone	Six Flags Magic Mountain	USA	March 23, 1991	Closed 2006
Texas Giant	Six Flags Over Texas	USA	March 17, 1990	Closed November 1, 2009; converted by Rocky Mountain Construction into New Texas Giant
Thunder Run	Kentucky Kingdom	USA	August 1990	Operating
Timber Wolf	Worlds of Fun	USA	April 1, 1989	Operating
Raging Wolf Bobs	Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom	USA	May 28, 1988	Closed June 16, 2007
Wild One	Six Flags America	USA	1986	Operating
Wolverine Wildcat	Michigan's Adventure	USA	May 14, 1988	Operating

Images

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  Thunder Run at Kentucky Kingdom
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  Predator at Six Flags Darien Lake
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  Pegasus at Efteling

External links

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  Dinn Corporation on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

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