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In 2007, Sikorsky opened the Hawk Works,<ref>{{cite web |author=John Pike |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2007/10/mil-071008-sikorsky01.htm |title=Sikorsky opens HAWK WORKS™ completion center for military helicopters |website=Globalsecurity.org |date=2007-10-05 |access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> a Rapid Prototyping and Military Derivatives Completion Center located west of the [[Elmira-Corning Regional Airport]] in [[Big Flats (CDP), New York|Big Flats, New York]]. That same year Sikorsky purchased the [[PZL Mielec]] plant in [[Poland]]. The plant is assembling the S-70i for international customers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/06/08/342785/sikorsky-breathes-new-life-into-pzl-mielec.html |title= Sikorsky breathes new life into PZL Mielec |access-date=June 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611091515/http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/06/08/342785/sikorsky-breathes-new-life-into-pzl-mielec.html |archive-date=June 11, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sikorsky.com/About+Sikorsky/News/Press+Details?pressvcmid%3Dec821075c9257210VgnVCM1000004f62529fRCRD |title= First S-70iTM Helicopter Fully Assembled at Sikorsky Facility in Poland |access-date=June 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110110549/http://www.sikorsky.com/About+Sikorsky/News/Press+Details?pressvcmid=ec821075c9257210VgnVCM1000004f62529fRCRD |archive-date=January 10, 2011 }}</ref>
In February 2009, Sikorsky Global Helicopters was created as a business unit of Sikorsky Aircraft to focus on the construction and marketing of commercial helicopters.<ref name="press">Sikorsky Press Release, 23 February 2009</ref> The business unit combined the main civil helicopters that were produced by Sikorsky Aircraft and the helicopter business of Schweizer Aircraft that Sikorsky had acquired in 2004.<ref name="press" /> It
In 2011, Sikorsky laid off 400 workers at the Hawk Works plant, and later in 2012 the remaining 570 workers and closed all Sikorsky facilities in Chemung County; moving the military completion work to their West Palm Beach, Florida, facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Sikorsky-to-close-N-Y-plant-cut-570-jobs-3892430.php |title=Sikorsky to close N.Y. plant, cut 570 jobs |work=Connecticut Post |access-date=20 July 2015}}</ref> The commercial products had already been moved to their Coatesville, Pennsylvania facility.
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