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Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport (IATA: BDR, ICAO: KBDR, FAA LID: BDR) is a public airport in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, [1] owned by the city of Bridgeport. It is three miles (6 km ) southeast of downtown, [ 1 ] in the town of Stratford .
Sikorsky Airport can refer to: Sikorsky Memorial Airport , public airport in Fairfield County, Connecticut , United States Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport , international airport in Kyiv, Ukraine
The Connecticut Air & Space Center is an aviation museum located near Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Stratford, Connecticut, that is focused on the history of aviation in Connecticut. Founded by George Gunther in 1998 after the closing of the Stratford Army Engine Plant , it occupied buildings 6 and 53 of the complex from 2001 until 2022.
KBDR (BDR) – Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport – Bridgeport, Connecticut; KBDU – Boulder Municipal Airport – Boulder, Colorado; KBEC (BEC) – Beech Factory Airport – Wichita, Kansas; KBED (BED) – Laurence G. Hanscom Field – Bedford, Massachusetts; KBEH (BEH) – Southwest Michigan Regional Airport – Benton Harbor, Michigan
The Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division in Stratford built a total of 7,829 F4U fighters from 1940 to 1952, including the prototype. These planes saw extensive combat in the Pacific Theatre of operations during World War II, and played a supporting role in the Korean War. A Corsair sits on a pedestal at the airport as a memorial to the war effort ...
The Sikorsky VS-44 was a large four-engined flying boat built in the United States in the early 1940s by Sikorsky Aircraft. Based on the XPBS-1 patrol bomber, the VS-44 was designed primarily for the transatlantic passenger market, with a capacity of 40+ passengers.
Tailwind Air LLC was an American commuter scheduled air carrier and charter airline based in Westchester Airport and Sikorsky Memorial Airport.Its main seaplane base was New York Skyports Seaplane Base (NYS) and it also owned its own Boston Harbor seaplane base (MA17), near Logan International Airport in Boston. [5]
Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.