Sikorsky Aircraft Corp

Wizz Air, an airline that specializes in destinations to Eastern Europe, recently announced new service from Sikorsky Airport to Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna. But don't pack your bags just yet. The Sikorsky Airport being referred to here isn't in Stratford, Conn., but Kiev, Ukraine. In March, the city council in the ...

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A North Branford resident of nearly 40 years, Steve's a professional engineer who has continued to fulfill his ZBA duties in tandem with a full-time career with Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Steve's first appointment to the ZBA was in August 1994. While he's certainly gained an understanding of information and ...

... Leidos Inc. — at the time SAIC — CymSTAR LLC and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., use M240H weapon recoil simulators made by ISM, with Leidos and CymSTAR subcontracting directly with ISM and ISM acting as a subcontractor to Sikorsky's own subcontractor, FlightSafety International Simulation Systems.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – With the CH-53K King Stallion on track to be declared ready for U.S. Marine Corps operations in 2019, builder Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. is now eyeing future international customers. A key demonstration of the heavy lift helicopter's capabilities is scheduled for later this month in ...

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is being awarded a $33,000,000 not-to-exceed, cost-plus-incentive-fee order (N0001918F2410) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0004). This order provides for non-recurring engineering tasking ...

The city council in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv has renamed one of its international airports after Igor Sikorsky, the aviation engineer who founded Stratford-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Born in Kyiv (formerly known as Kiev) in 1889, when Ukraine was part of the Tsarist Russian Empire, Sikorsky designed ...

In 2016, Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. agreed to settle wrongful death and negligence claims in a lawsuit filed over the 2014 crash of a Navy helicopter that killed three of the five crew members on a training exercise off the coast of Virginia. Sikorsky reached a "settlement in principle" with the ...

His wife retired from Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford after 16 years of service and has been a paraprofessional in the West Haven school district for the past 23 years. The Douglases, who celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary Oct. 22, have been active members of the city's Allingtown community for ...

14 against Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Sikorsky Global Helicopters and Keystone Helicopter Corp., blaming them for the “dangerous defects which caused” the death of her husband, according court documents obtained by PEOPLE. All companies are attributed to the Model 269 Schweitzer helicopter, which is ...

As Troy Gentry continues to be mourned by the country community following a fatal helicopter crash last September, his wife has filed a lawsuit against the aircraft's manufacturer. Angela Gentry is taking action against Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Sikorsky Global Helicopters and Keystone Helicopter Corp., all of ...

The suit, filed in Pennsylvania, alleges that Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Sikorsky Global Helicopters and Keystone Helicopter Corp. knew the Model 269 Schweitzer helicopter had “dangerous defects,” and lacked “modern crashworthy features” included on the military version of the aircraft, “so that in the event of ...

Troy Gentry's widow has filed a lawsuit alleging that helicopter manufacturers are responsible for “dangerous defects which caused” the accident killing her husband. Angela Gentry filed the lawsuit in Pennsylvania Feb. 14 against Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Sikorsky Global Helicopters and Keystone Helicopter ...

Angela Gentry says the failure by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Keystone Helicopter Corp. to make the aircraft crashworthy left occupants no chance of survival in case of an emergency. “The dangers from the lack of crashworthiness and defects in the engine, transmission and sprag clutch, throttle cables, ...

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md. – Engineers at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford, Conn., are preparing to build seven new CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters and integrated avionics systems for the U.S. Marine Corps under terms of a $126.5 million order announced Tuesday. Officials of the U.S. Naval Air ...

A recent federal trial court decision underscores the importance of the effective use of a rigorous reduction-in-force (RIF) selection process. In Ameti v. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Sikorsky beat back multiple discrimination claims asserted by a former engineer selected as one of 17 of his peers in a reduction in ...

Law360 (February 12, 2018, 8:09 PM EST) -- A Connecticut federal judge has refused to give Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. a quick win in a deaf electrical installer's suit claiming the company didn't always provide him with an interpreter, ruling that the Lockheed Martin subsidiary hasn't shown his request was “unreasonable as a ...

Law360 (February 7, 2018, 9:10 PM EST) -- A Connecticut federal judge on Tuesday axed a former Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. engineer's suit alleging he was laid off due to his Muslim faith, Balkan heritage and dark complexion, saying there wasn't enough evidence to show he was treated differently than his colleagues.

"Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is being awarded $303,974,406 to a previously awarded contract for the Lot I low-rate initial production of two CH-53K heavy lift helicopters, associated aircraft and programmatic support, logistics support, peculiar support equipment, ...

Law360 (February 26, 2018, 5:52 PM EST) -- The federal government hit back Friday at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.'s bid to cut “overbroad” allegations from a False Claims Act suit accusing the company of overcharging the U.S. Navy for replacement aircraft parts, telling a Wisconsin federal court the complexity of the case was ...