Winter

Gebr. Winter GmbH & Co.KG
On-Board Devices for Aviation
Jungingen, Germany

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Overview
Winter has an excellent reputation as a quality manufacturer of aircraft instruments. With all the high tech devices in sailplanes these days, having a reliable mechanical variometer makes sense. It will continue to work perfectly regardless of the status of your glider battery and fuses. Winter is also known for their airspeed indicators, MacCready speed-to-fly rings, altimeters, barographs and accessories for all those products.

History - Involved Right from the Beginning
The three brothers Eugen, Heinrich, and Willi Winter founded the company Gebrüder Winter OHG on October 1st, 1931 with the air of producing and distributing various meteorological instruments. In 1935 the building in the "Hauptstrasse" as place of business and headquarter was bought and extended various times during the following decades.

The young company soon founded the right track by developing and constructing flight instruments in addition to the meteorological instruments and a time when sports flying was still very rare. Together with the sport flying field, Messrs. Winter were developing more and more and grew into specialists in flight instruments.

Today Winter flight instruments are used all over the world. The precision of the instruments and their high reliability as well as the prompt service regarding control and overhaul are requested by manufacturers and proprietors of planes.

The Company
Flight instruments must ensure a safe flight and afford the pilot the opportunity of exploiting the capabilities of his aircraft to the fullest. The requirement placed on instruments of this nature in regard to measuring accuracy, insensitivity to outside influences (vibration, acceleration, fluctuations in temperature, etc.) and operational reliability are stringent in the extreme.

Behind The Glass
The August/September 2013 edition of Sailplane & Gliding magazine featured a nice 3-page article about Winter. Click on the image below to view the article.

History

Founder Heinrich Winter with his sons,
Hans, Helmut and Edwin Winter, all of them have led the company in the second generation, and with his daughter Franziska.(RTL)

Assembly hall in the 1960s.

Meteorograph from the 1930s.

Photos from Winter's Headquarters in Jungingen, Germany
Click on the images below to view larger versions.

The small town of

Jungingen, Germany

Photo from the castle

(Burg Hohenzollern) in the fog.

Front of company building in

Jungingen

Back of company building in

Jungingen

Company building in Jungingen

Assembly of parts

Airspeed Assembly

Altimeter Assembly

Variometer Assembly

Mobile Test Kit

Spare Part Production

Quality Management

Gebr. Winter has accumulated many years' experience in manufacturing and developing flight instruments. Thanks to optimally equipped test facilities, instrument workshops and a staff of experienced specialists, Winter instruments have become a byword for high precision and reliability. Maximum emphasis is placed on dependable service in the after-sales inspection and overhaul of the instruments.

Company Overview Video

This page will give you an overview of the range of flight instruments Winter produces.

Special Instrument Dial Colors

In addition to the standard and classy white on black instrument dials, Winter offers light ivory and anodized aluminum colors an option for many of their instruments. The light ivory dials (with black markings and red and black pointers) give the instruments a classic look that looks fantastic in vintage sailplanes. Below is a photo of the ivory dials installed in the panel of a Spalinger sailplane that is being worked on by Mike Redman at RAW Fabrication, LLC. Click on the image to view a larger version. There is a $90 extra charge for the ivory dials for most instruments, and $70 for the W-1115 QM III bank indicator shown in the bottom center of the photo. The upgrade part number is W-8028.

Special Instrument Dial Colors


Standard White markings and pointers on a black anodized background	Black markings and red and black pointers on a light ivory background	Black markings and red and black pointers on an anodized aluminum background