Sikorsky Memorial Airport announced by the Connecticut Air and Space Center that the hangar is being restored into a museum of flight to focusing on locally manufactured aircraft including a Chance-Vought F4U Corsair, a replica of the Gustave Whitehead 1901 flyer and a Sikorsky S-60 helicopter. Sikorsky Memorial Airport Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport is a public airport in Fairfield County, Connecticut, owned by the city of Bridgeport. It is three miles (6 km) southeast of downtown, in the town of Stratford. It was formerly "Bridgeport Municipal Airport". It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
Sikorsky S-9 completion the S-9 was found to be substantially heavier than anticipated and the engine only delivered 80% of its rated horsepower. Initial flight tests revealed very poor performance. The engine was replaced by a Gnome Monosoupape and further flights showed only a nominal increase in speed. The machine was eventually scrapped. Sikorsky S-9 The Sikorsky S-9 "Kruglyj" (Rounded One) was a Russian single engine prototype aircraft completed in the spring of 1913 by the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works while Igor Sikorsky was the chief engineer of the aircraft manufacturing division. The S-9 was a three-seat mid-wing monoplane with constant-chord