ORENCO

[Maveric]

ORENCO = Ordnance Engineering Company

Type A Trainer 1917 (picture and 3view drawing wanted)
Type B Pursuit 1917 http://www.aerofiles.com/orenco-b.jpg
Type C Trainer 1917
Type D Pursuit 1919 http://www.aerofiles.com/orenco-d.jpg
Type E ? (infos and drawings, technical data wanted)
Type F Tourer 1920 http://www.aerofiles.com/orenco-f.jpg
Type G ? (infos and drawings, technical data wanted)
Type H Coast Artillery and Observation Plane 1920
Type I Sport Boat 1920

Servus Maveric

 

[Maveric]

Aerofiles.com listed 4 other Types out of the Letter-System

IL.1 Experimental Infantry Liaison 1919 (pics and drawings wanted)
PT Trainer? 19? (infos wanted)
PW.1 Pursuit 1920
PW.3 Pursuit 1921

see: http://www.aerofiles.com/_o.html

Servus Maveric

 

[Jos Heyman]

IL-1 is Orenco E2

Specifications:
span: 46', 14.02 m
length: 32', 9.75 m
engines: 1 Liberty 12
max. speed: 107 mph, 172 km/h
Two IL-1s were built against an order placed on 26 January 1920. The serials were 63273/63274. They were also flown with Wright Field serials P-147 and P-168 respectively

PW-3 is Orenco D2

Specifications:
span: 27'9", 8.46 m
length: 23'10", 7.26 m
engines: 1 Wright Hispano H
max. speed: 140 mph, 225 km/h
Three PW-3s were ordered on 23 April 1920 with serials 64142/64144 but, although they were apparently delivered, they were never flown. Aircraft 64144 was also given Wright Field serial P-229.


PW-1 was Engineering Division VCP-2, not Orenco.

Orenco = Ordnance Engineering Corp of New York, NY.
Dana Bell's Directory of Airplanes lists:
Types A, B, C, C2, C3, C4, D, D2 (=PW-3), E, E2, F Tourister, F2 Tourister II, H2, H3, I Sport Boat, P-19 The Sociable.

 

[robunos]

From 'The American Fighter', Angelucci with Bowers, pp. 378-80, :-

"...type A, a two-seat trainer biplane...instructor and student...side by side
in a single cockpit...105hp Dusenberg engine...
Type B...a Pursuit Fighter...very reminiscent of the SPAD VII...160hp Gnome engine...
Three Type C versions were built...C1...identical..to the B...C2...with single bay wings...
and the C3 aerobatic trainer."
The same source has the PW-3 as Orenco D2, a developed D, with single bay wings.
The authorities decided after ground tests that the aircraft was not airworthy.


cheers,
Robin.

 

[Maveric]

There was also a version Type C-4 Cross Country, a touring biplane.

 

[memaerobilia]

The Orenco Co. designations from the original Orenco Catalogue:

 

[Jos Heyman]

Found the attached in Flight of 1 April 1920. (flightglobal.com)

 

[Stargazer]

There was also a Model F-4 Tourister, which was the 1921 version of Model F, released late in 1920.

On top of the "Model A to Model I" list of designations, one must add the final series of water-cooled pursuits built for the U. S. Army Air Service in 1920-21, not all Orenco designs but still produced by that company:

• PW-1: Production version of Engineering Division's PW-1 with water-cooled 350hp Packard 1A-1237 engine, designed by A. Verville and V. E. Clark. Two built [A. S. 64350/64351].
• PW-1A: One aircraft modified with Fokker D.7 wings.
• PW-1B: Third aircraft cancelled in 1921; differences unknown (ideas, anyone?)
• PW-3: Single-seat water-cooled biplane fighter developed from D-2 with 320hp Wright-Hisso H engine. Three built [A. S. 64142/64144, the third being tested at McCook Field as P-229].
• PW-6: Fokker D.IX with metal fuselage. Possible involvement of Orenco (not confirmed).

 

[Cy-27]

Some Ordnance Engineering Co (Orenco) projects are mentioned in the attached photocopy of an Orenco company catalog page.

Projects mentioned: H2 observation, E/E2 military biplane, H3 commercial and a twin-engine Bomber.

An issue of WWI Aero from 1990/1991 also had the page as part of an Orenco feature.