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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 .
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Talks about commercial services returning to Sikorsky Memorial Airport have been going on for years. Built in the 1920s on Avon Field, located in Stratford and previously owned by the City of Bridgeport (until bought by the Connecticut Airport Authority ), the airport ceased commercial flights in 1999, along with the demolition of the passenger ...
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.
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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
Sikorsky Aircraft is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut.It was established by the Russian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky in 1923, and was among the first companies to manufacture helicopters for civilian and military use.
Igor Sikorsky's first helicopter success in Stratford on September 14, 1939 is documented as well as his subsequent productions. [ 2 ] Also displayed are the small gas turbine engines developed locally by Dr. Anselm Franz at Avco Lycoming which power such helicopters as the Bell Helicopter UH-1 Iroquois or Huey and the Boeing CH-47 Chinook .