Aviation
Sikorsky in $1.1B deal
Qatar hopes to buy a dozen Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters.
NetJets announces $9.6 billion purchase
NetJets Inc. today announced a $9.6 billion private aircraft purchase from Cessna and Bombardier, marking one of the largest private aviation...
Runway upgrade approved for Stewart
More than $143 million in upgrades are coming to the Hudson Valley airport.
Pioneering years
In six years, Jeff Pino pushed Sikorsky’s Connecticut engineers to test the limits of rotorcraft flight – while pushing standard production...
Sikorsky unit to produce jet parts
Sikorsky’s Poland plant could manufacture very light jet fuselages and wings for Eclipse Aerospace.
Report: Poland preps helicopter bid
Sikorsky is expected to contend for a $1 billion contract in Poland.
UTC grounds light-jet investment
A UTC executive said the company would not sink more money into Eclipse, the darling of Sikorsky’s president.
Sikorsky sales lower
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. sales dropped 15 percent in the first quarter.
In the field
Pat Callahan is wrapping up a 30-year career at Pepperidge Farm, and other Fairfield County business news.
In the field
Connecticut extracted merger concessions from Northeast Utilities, and other news affecting Fairfield County businesses.
In the field
Home ownership ticked up in Fairfield County last year, and other news affecting Fairfield County businesses.
Port Authority allocates $19M for Stewart upgrades
Commissioners approve $2.5 million design for expanded terminal
In brief
Business news in Fairfield County and Connecticut.
Stewart commission opposes postal closing
The Stewart Airport Commission votes to keep open the U.S. Postal Service’s Mid-Hudson Processing and Distribution Center.
UTC revs up job cuts at Sikorsky
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. will accelerate job cuts, according to parent United Technologies Corp.
