The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is an American

United States

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 aircraft

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 manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut

Stratford, Connecticut

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. Its parent company is United Technologies Corporation

United Technologies Corporation

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.
Sikorsky was founded in 1925 by aircraft engineer Igor Sikorsky

Igor Sikorsky

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, a Kiev

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-born American immigrant. The company, named "Sikorsky Manufacturing Company", began aircraft production in Roosevelt, New York

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 that year. In 1929 the company moved to Stratford, Connecticut

Stratford, Connecticut

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. It became a part of United Aircraft and Transport Corporation

United Aircraft and Transport Corporation

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 (now United Technologies Corporation

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) in July of that year.

In the United States, Igor Sikorsky originally concentrated on the development of multi-engined landplanes and then amphibious aircraft.