Daily News | Coatesville factory seeks to build drone, tilt-rotor, hydrogen-powered aircraft
Piasecki Aircraft Corp., a Delaware County-based helicopter hardware and software developer, announced plans Wednesday to step up development of its PA-890 helicopter powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, as well as battery-powered tilt-rotor and unmanned aircraft, at the former Lockheed Sikorsky factory near Coatesville it purchased last winter.
Piasecki is a family company: The late founder’s seven children, beside John, include Fred, Piasecki’s chief technology officer, and Greg, a director. Third-generation family members have also been employed.Suppliers and potential users of the new aircraft and government officials were on hand Wednesday to welcome the new plant and hope for speedy Federal Aviation Administration approval for the products, some of which have been under development for many years.
And Martine Rothblatt, the Sirius XM radio developer who now heads United Therapeutics, which is developing artificial human organs, told the crowd Wednesday that she expected the Piasecki-built helicopters would reduce the cost of rushing organs to hospitals where they are needed. Not counting the cost of the new facilities, the company paid $10.5 million for the former Sikorsky works, which laid off around 300 workers last year after owner Lockheed Martin Corp. consolidated production and left Chester County, where it had built civilian helicopters, as well as the Marine One choppers used to ferry U.S. presidents and other dignitaries.
Chester County officials cheered the decision by Piasecki to keep the site in the aviation business, instead of turning it into warehouses, self-storage, or strip shopping space, like so many other former Philadelphia-area industrial sites.
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