Menasco Pirate Explained

The Menasco Pirate series are four-cylinder, air-cooled, in-line, inverted aero-engines, built by the Menasco Motors Company of Burbank, California, for use in light general and sport aircraft during the 1930s and 1940s.[1] The Menasco engines came in both normally aspirated and supercharged forms, with the supercharged models exhibiting superior performance at higher altitudes, with a relatively small increase in dimensions and weight. The supercharged models had the S suffix added to their designation to show supercharging.[2]

Variants

Menasco A-4 Pirate (also listed as Menasco 4A)
  • 90 hp.[3]
    Menasco B-4 Pirate
  • 95 hp.[3]
    Menasco C-4 Pirate (Military designation L-365)
  • 125 hp.[3] Compression ratio 5.8: 1, dry weight 300 lb[4]
    Menasco Pirate C-4S
  • Super-charged 150 hp.[3]
    Menasco D-4 Pirate
  • 125 hp, compression ratio 5.5:1, dry weight 311 lb[4]
    Menasco D-4-87 Super Pirate
  • 134 hp,Compression ratio 6:1, dry weight 310 lb[4]
    Menasco L-365-1: military designation for the C4-4LA
  • Menasco L-365-3: similar to -1 but changes to cylinder heads, lubrication and carburettor

    • Applications

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    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Menasco Pirate . www.bombercommandmuseum.ca . 2011 . 2011-05-26 . March 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324181243/http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/engine_menasco.html . dead .
    2. Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, pp. 122–24, Cypress, CA, 2013.
    3. Book: Herschel, Smith. . A History of Aircraft Piston Engines . Sunflower University Press . 1986 . 0-07-058472-9.
    4. Web site: Menasco Pirate . rgl.faa.gov . 2011-05-26.

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