Igor Sikorsky, Sikorsky Aircraft and its products have compiled an impressive list of "Aviation Firsts" over the years. Some of the more significant achievements are listed below, however this list is not to date:

1909 H-1, Igor constructed his First helicopter "This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone."

• 1910 S-2, Igor Sikorsky Flew for the First time

• 1911 S-5, Igor's First pilot license issued from the Imperial Aero Club of Russia

   

• 1912 S-6A won First place in the Moscow Aircraft Competition, pilot Igor Sikorsky

• 1913 S-9 First monocoque fuselage constructed in Russia

• 1913 S-10 establish a Russian Aviation Record flying 500 kilometers in 4 hrs and 56 min

• 1913 S-12 First Russian designed aircraft capable of a loop

• 1913 S-12 Established a Russian Altitude Record of 3,680m

• 1913 Igor Sikorsky flew the S-21 "Grand" the World's First successful four-engine plane

• 1913 S-21 set a World's Record for duration and literally set one World's Record after another for a four-engine plane with each fligh

• 1913 S-10 & S-11 won First and Second place in the Petrograd Military Competition

• 1914 S-27 set two World Records for payload and flight duration

• 1914 S-27 with pontoons was the largest seaplane built in the World

• 1916 S-27G with 880 horsepower was the largest plane produced in the World
  

• 1923 Igor founded his Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation

• 1924 S-29A the First twin-engine airplane capable of flying on one engine and First all metal aircraft

• 1925 S-29A the World's First airplane to broadcast a radio musical program in-flight

• 1926 S-29A the World's First airplane to show a motion picture in-flight

   

• 1929 S-37 First airplane to fly over the Andes Mountains

• 1929 S-38 extensively used in pioneering Central and South American air routes by Pan American Airways

• 1929 S-38 Piloted by Charles Lindbergh inaugurated air mail service between the United States and the Panama

  
  

• 1931 S-40 "American Clipper" was the Worlds largest airliner produced

   

• 1934 S-42 First production aircraft with wing flaps which allowed high flight speeds and low landing speeds.

• 1934 S-42 Established ten World Records, of which eight were set on one flight. This flight of August 1st vaulted the United States into First place holder of World Aviation Records

• 1935 S-42 inaugurated the First transoceanic air service, flying the first airmail from Honolulu to the mainland.

• 1937 S-42 made the First regular airline crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean and pioneered the transpacific route to Asi

   

• 1936 S-43 Established four World Altitude Records

   

• 1937 S-44 is the World's longest-range commercial aircraft. Only aircraft to have flown commercial scheduled non-stop across the north and south Atlantic. This was the last fixed-wing aircraft built by Sikorsky
  

• 1965 S-61 made the First nonstop, transcontinental, flight setting a World's record for distance of 2,105 miles

• 1965 S-61N made the First transatlantic crossing by a commercial helicopter

• 1965 S-64 claimed three World's Altitude Records

• 1966 S-64 First helicopter with engine inlet particle separator

• 1968 S-65 First large helicopter to loop and roll

• 1968 S-65 First titanium-spar rotor blade

• 1969 S-65 First helicopter with an infrared suppressor system

• 1970 S-65 First helicopter transpacific crossing

• 1970 S-67 First prototype gunship with wings and dive brakes

• 1970 S-67 set a World Speed Record

• 1970 S-67 First helicopter with swept-tip rotor blades

• 1971 S-70 First helicopter with a canted tail rotor

• 1973 S-69 First to fly the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC)

• 1973 S-70 First successful flight of an all composite, bearingless tail rotor

• 1973 CH-53E First three-engine helicopter

• 1973 CH-53E First seven-blade main rotor helicopter

• 1977 S-76 First helicopter designed for civil transportation

• 1980 S-70 first helicopter qualified to fly into know moderate icing conditions

• 1984 S-75 First all-composite airframe (ACAP)

• `1985 First helicopter with single-pilot research cockpit, fly-by-wire, sidearm controls, voice interaction (SHADOW)