11 Facts About Sikorsky Aircraft

Sikorsky Aircraft is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut.

On 5 March 1923, the Sikorsky Aircraft Aero Engineering Corporation was founded near Roosevelt Field, New York, by Igor Sikorsky Aircraft, an immigrant to the United States who was born in Kyiv.

Sikorsky Aircraft then began work on developing a practical helicopter.

Sikorsky Aircraft remains a leading helicopter manufacturer, producing such well-known models as the UH-60 Black Hawk and SH-60 Seahawk, and experimental types such as the Sikorsky S-72.

In late 2005, Sikorsky Aircraft completed the purchase of Keystone Helicopter Corporation, located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

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In 2007, Sikorsky Aircraft opened the Hawk Works, a Rapid Prototyping and Military Derivatives Completion Center located west of the Elmira-Corning Regional Airport in Big Flats, New York.

In February 2009, Sikorsky Global Helicopters was created as a business unit of Sikorsky Aircraft to focus on the construction and marketing of commercial helicopters.

In 2011, Sikorsky Aircraft laid off 400 workers at the Hawk Works plant, and later in 2012 the remaining 570 workers and closed all Sikorsky Aircraft facilities in Chemung County; moving the military completion work to their West Palm Beach, Florida, facility.

Sikorsky Aircraft's main plant and administrative offices are located in Stratford, Connecticut, as is a large company-owned private heliport .

Sikorsky Aircraft-owned subsidiaries are in Grand Prairie, Texas, and elsewhere around the world.

In 2015, UTC considered Sikorsky Aircraft to be less profitable than its other subsidiaries, and analyzed a possible spin-off rather than a tax-heavy sale.