Dinn Corporation

Dinn Corporation was a roller coaster designing and manufacturing company established in West Chester, Ohio in 1983 by Charles Dinn. The company is noted for moving and rebuilding several existing wooden coasters and building ten new wooden roller coasters in the United States. Charles Dinn served as Kings Island's Director of Construction, Maintenance and Engineering, where he designed and built The Beast with a team including Al Collins, Jim Nickell, William Reed and Curtis D. Summers. In November 1984, Dinn left Kings Island and opened his own corporation in West Chester, Ohio. The corporation relocated three older wooden roller coasters from parks that had been closed to new parks One of the firm's first projects was rebuilding the...