Piasecki Helicopter

Piasecki Helicopter Corporation
IndustryAerospace
Founded1940 (1940)
FoundersFrank Piasecki
Defunct1960
Fateacquired by Boeing
SuccessorBoeing Vertol
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was an American designer and manufacturer of 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.: 257–8  Vertol was acquired by Boeing in 1960 and renamed Boeing Vertol.

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