The Piasecki Aircraft Corporation is an American manufacturer of aircraft, principally advanced rotorcraft. It was founded in 1955 by the vertical flight pioneer Frank Piasecki, after he was forced out of the leadership of his first company, Piasecki Helicopter, with the aim of developing compound helicopters and other advanced rotorcraft. The company is based in Essington, Pennsylvania, and is run by Frank Piasecki's sons. Its work has included the Piasecki 16H-1, the first shaft-driven compound helicopter, the AirGeep, the PA-97 Helistat heavy vertical airlifter and the X-49 experimental compound helicopter, which first flew in 2007. In 2006 it won a United States Army contract for a Future Combat Systems unmanned aerial vehicle, and it flew the world's first autonomous autogyro. It appears in this atlas because the engineer Frank Piasecki founded it.
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The Piasecki Aircraft Corporation is based in Essington, Pennsylvania
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Frank Piasecki and some of his design team left to form Piasecki Aircraft Corporation in 1955.
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The Piasecki Aircraft Corporation is based in Essington, Pennsylvania
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