Editing Piasecki Helicopter (section)

{{short description|American helicopter manufacturer (1940–1956)}}
{{Distinguish|Piasecki Aircraft}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Piasecki Helicopter Corporation
| logo = Piasecki Helicopter Corporation Logo.png
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| industry = [[Aerospace]]
| fate = acquired by [[Boeing]]
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| successor = [[Boeing Vertol]]
| founded = {{Start date|1940}}
| founders = [[Frank Piasecki]]
| defunct = 1960
| hq_location_city = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], US
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The '''Piasecki Helicopter Corporation''' was an American designer and manufacturer of [[helicopter]]s in [[Philadelphia]] and nearby [[Morton, Pennsylvania]], in the late 1940s and the 1950s.<ref name="vert0702-2">{{cite magazine |title=Tandem Twosome |magazine=Vertical Magazine |date=February–March 2007}}</ref>   Its founder, [[Frank Piasecki]], was ousted in 1956 and started a new company, [[Piasecki Aircraft]]. Piasecki Helicopter was renamed '''Vertol Corporation''' in early 1956.<ref name="trimble">{{cite book |last=Trimble |first=William F. |title=High Frontier: A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |date=1982 |isbn=978-0-82295-340-1 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000105541}}</ref>{{rp|257–8}}  Vertol was acquired by [[Boeing]] in 1960 and renamed '''Boeing Vertol'''.