Piasecki Helicopter
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Closed date | 1960 |
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Successors | Boeing Rotorcraft Systems |
Founders | Frank Piasecki |
Founded | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Headquarters | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
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ID | 4171850 |
About Piasecki Helicopter
Piasecki Helicopter Corporation designed and manufactured helicopters in Philadelphia and nearby Morton, Pennsylvania, in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Its founder, Frank Piasecki, was ousted in 1956 and started a new company, Piasecki Aircraft. Piasecki Helicopter was renamed Vertol Corporation in early 1956.