COATESVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Hundreds of jobs are coming to a helicopter plant in Chester County that had been shut down. Piasecki Aircraft is taking over the former Sikorsky plant in ...

Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) Investment Will Accelerate Development of ARES Tilt-Duct VTOL and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Propulsion for VTOL Applications ESSINGTON, Pa., November 21, 2023 ...

In an aviation milestone, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) successfully conducted the first flight of its innovative proof of concept tilt-duct Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System Demonstration ...

COATESVILLE — Sen. Bob Casey was on hand, Tuesday, to help celebrate the strategic collaboration between helicopter builders Piasecki Aircraft Corp. and Columbia Helicopters. Helicopter modifications ...

Piasecki’s PA-890 is a slowed-rotor compound helicopter with hydrogen-electric propulsion. Credit: Piasecki Aircraft Piasecki Aircraft is on track to fly the first piloted hydrogen-powered helicopter ...

The upgrades to the rotorcraft will be done in a former Sikorsky factory now run by Piasecki Columbia Helicopters owns the type and production certificates for the Model 107-II heavy-lift, tandem ...

Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) has purchased the former Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Heliplex facility in Pennsylvania. PiAC intends to convert the facility into an advanced research and development ...

Frank Piasecki, 88, an engineer who flew the second successful helicopter in America and built the first technically and commercially viable tandem-rotor helicopter, died Feb. 11 at his home in ...

Haxel demonstrator will test propulsion technology for Piasecki’s planned hydrogen-electric PA-890. Credit: Piasecki Aircraft Piasecki Aircraft is preparing to modify an ultralight helicopter by ...

Piasecki Aircraft will later this year open the doors of a new production and R&D site in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, having purchased the plant from helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky. Lockheed ...

ESSINGTON, Pa., September 10, 2024 (Newswire.com) – In an aviation milestone, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) successfully conducted the first flight of its innovative proof of concept tilt-duct ...

Piasecki Aircraft has secured new work for its ‘Heliplex’ facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, signing a collaboration agreement with Columbia Helicopters to upgrade Model 107 tandem-rotor ...