Sikorsky Aviation Corporation

Historical

LOC source: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Igor Ivan Sikorsky papers, 1913-1958 (Sikorsky Aviation Corporation; later the Sikorsky Aircraft Division, a division of United Aircraft Corporation).

Wikipedia: On March 5, 1923, the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation was founded near Roosevelt Field, New York, by Igor Sikorsky, an immigrant to the United States who was born in Kiev, in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine). In 1925, the company name was changed to Sikorsky Manufacturing Company. After the success of the S-38, the company was reorganized as the Sikorsky Aviation Corporation with capital of $5,000,000, allowing the purchase of land and the building of a modern aircraft factory in Stratford, Connecticut. The company moved its headquarters there in 1929, and it became a part of United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (later United Technologies Corporation or UTC) in July of that year. [Sikorsky, Igor (1944). The Story of the Winged-S. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company and Spenser, Jay P. (1998). "Sikorsky". Whirlybirds: A History of the U.S. Helicopter Pioneers. University of Washington Press.]