A unit of Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford has awarded a $1.2 million contract to a New York company to develop a key attachment for Sikorsky’s sea-based minesweeping helicopter.
Sikorsky’s MH-53E Sea Dragon is one of the U.S. military’s largest helicopters and fills the Navy’s need for a warship-based aircraft capable of carrying out minesweeping missions. On those missions, the Sea Dragon tows mine countermeasure systems.
Sikorsky Aerospace’s contract to CPI Aerostructures Inc. of New York calls for the development of an electro-mechanical device that would be attached the Sea Dragon’s tow boom. The devices would serves as spares.
Sikorsky Aerospace is a unit of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford. Sikorsky Aircraft is a division of United Technologies Corp. in Hartford.
