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The Ranger L-440 (company designation 6-440C) are six-cylinder inline inverted air-cooled aero-engines produced by the Ranger Aircraft Engine Division of the 
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.
History
Early aircraft
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of Farmingdale, New York
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, United States. The engine was mainly produced for Fairchild's family of training aircraft in the mid-1930s.
Variants
;6-440C-2 :175hp variant with a 6:1 compression ratio.Bridgman 1988 ;6-440C-3 :180hp variant with a 6.2:1 compression ratio. ;6-440C-4 :190hp variant with a 6.8:1 compression ratio. ;6-440C-5 :200hp variant with a 7.5:1 compression ratio.Applications
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Design and development
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Specifications (6-440C-2)
See also
References
;Notes ;Bibliography * {{US military piston aeroengines Air-cooled aircraft piston engines 1930s aircraft piston engines Inverted aircraft piston engines Straight-six engines