ORENCO

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Orenco Co. designations from the original Orenco Catalogue:

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

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).

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.