Sikorsky Aircraft News

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Connecticut lawmakers are taking steps to stop the Pentagon from buying Russian-made helicopters for use by the Afghan military and to enable American aircraft manufacturers to compete for future contracts.

The US corporate bond market has shown Facebook how it's done today, by pricing a bond offering of almost $10 billion from United Technologies Corp , making it the biggest investment-grade deal of the year.

May 24 - Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of 'A' to United Technologies Corporation's proposed issuance of approximately $10 billion of senior unsecured notes.

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TROY, Ala., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sikorsky Aircraft's Troy, Ala., facility announced today it has completed the structural modernization of its first S-61T airframe, which will now undergo completion at Carson Helicopters for eventual delivery to the U.S. State Department for diplomatic service in Afghanistan.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp.

Louis Chenevert, CEO of the Hartford, Conn.-based parent company of aviation and building systems companies, told investment analysts on Tuesday that United Technologies is looking at what he called its "strategic options" at UTC Power.

Anna Preston of Farmington was awarded one of four United Technologies/ YMCA Wesley A. Kuhrt Youth Citizenship Awards for Community Service at the YMCA of Greater Hartford's recent annual meeting.

Poland's biggest aircraft producer, PZL Mielec, has signed a contract with Eclipse Aerospace, Inc., to produce components for the Eclipse 550 jet.

South Korea is seeking to buy eight MH-60R Seahawk multi-mission helicopters from Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford that advances the company's overseas sales in Asia that included a demonstration tour to India this year .

On March 24, 2004, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. recognized its metrology lab team with its first-ever Achieving Competitive Excellence Gold Cell.

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United Technologies has won a bid to build a fuel cell on Osborne Street to sell power to WCSU's new science building.

Procter & Gamble Co.'s worldwide strategic alliance partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle is being extended five years by the latter, subsequent to PG's competitive selection process to choose a commercial facilities service partner.

Eclipse Aerospace, Inc. announced today the signing of an agreement with PZL Mielec, an affiliate of Sikorsky Aircraft and subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., to produce major components for the Eclipse 550 Jet.

Sikorsky Aircraft 's Cherokee Nation Industries facility was certified as a UTC Supplier Gold site, making it the 15th Sikorsky supplier to be awarded for operational performance.

Called the Igor I. Sikorsky Prize, the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has pledged $250,000 for the first successful flight of a human-powered helicopter.

To the Editor: United Technologies recently combined the Carrier business unit with the UTC Fire and Security unit, with the new name of UTC Climate, Controls and Security .