UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
( ) Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16.
Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instructions 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person
Schilling, Richard M.
Sundstrand Corporation
4949 Harrison Avenue
P.O. Box 7003
Rockford,, IL 61125-7003
U.S.A.
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Sundstrand Corporation
SNS
3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary)
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4. Statement for Month/Year
December 1996
5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
( ) Director ( ) 10% Owner (X) Officer (give title below) ( ) Other
(specify below)
Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
(X) Form filed by One Reporting Person
( ) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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1. Title of Security |2. |3. |4.Securities Acquired (A) |5.Amount of |6.Dir |7.Nature of Indirect |
| Transaction | or Disposed of (D) | Securities |ect | Beneficial Ownership |
| | | | Beneficially |(D)or | |
| | | | | A/| | Owned at |Indir | |
| Date |Code|V| Amount | D | Price | End of Month |ect(I)| |
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<S> <C> <C> <C><C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Common Stock |5/10/9|A(1)|V|5,992.51 |A |$33.375 | |I |401(k) Plan Trust |
|6 | | | | | | | | |
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Common Stock |6/28/9|J(2)|V|28.03 |A |$36.625 | |I |401(k) Plan Trust |
|6 | | | | | | | | |
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Common Stock |8/30/9|J(2)|V|27.70 |A |$37.375 | |I | 401(k) Plan Trust |
|6 | | | | | | | | |
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Common Stock |12/31/|J(2)|V|24.889 |A |$42.50 |6049.633 |I |401(k) Plan Trust |
|96 | | | | | | | | |
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Common Stock |11/19/|A(3)|V|1,500 |A |$.00 | |D |---- |
|96 | | | | | | | | |
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Common Stock |12/20/|G |V|200 |D |N/A Gift |106,940 |D |---- |
|96 | | | | | | | | |
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Table II -- Derivative Securitites Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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1.Title of Derivative |2.Con- |3. |4. |5.Number of De |6.Date Exer|7.Title and Amount |8.Price|9.Number |10.|11.Nature of|
Security |version |Transaction | rivative Secu |cisable and| of Underlying |of Deri|of Deriva |Dir|Indirect |
|or Exer | | | rities Acqui |Expiration | Securities |vative |tive |ect|Beneficial |
|cise | | | red(A) or Dis |Date(Month/| |Secu |Securities |(D)|Ownership |
|Price of| | | posed of(D) |Day/Year) | |rity |Benefi |or | |
|Deriva- | | | |Date |Expir| | |ficially |Ind| |
|tive | | | | A/|Exer-|ation| Title and Number | |Owned at |ire| |
|Secu- | | | | | D |cisa-|Date | of Shares | |End of |ct | |
|rity |Date |Code|V| Amount | |ble | | | |Month |(I)| |
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Employee Nonqualified | $38.937|11/19|A(4)|V|8,000 |A |(4) |11/19|Common Stock|8,000 | |38,250(4) |D |--- |
Stock Option (Right to|5 |/96 | | | | | |/06 | | | | | | |
Buy)w/Tandem Withhold| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ing Right | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Explanation of Responses:
(1)Intraplan transfer resulting in an acquisition of issuer securities in
Sundstrand's 401(K) Plan in a transaction
exempt under old Rule
16a-8(g)(3).
(2)Allocated to the Reporting Person's account pursuant to an automatic
dividend reinvestment feature of the
Sundstrand Corporation Employee Savings Plan-Sundstrand Stock
Fund.
(3)Award of restricted Common Stock under the Company's Stock Incentive Plan in
transaction exempt under
Rule
16b-3(d).
(4)Grant to Reporting Person of option to buy Common Stock under the Company's
Stock Incentive Plan in
transaction exempt under Rule 16b-3(d). Options become exercisable at a rate
of 25% of each grant on the
second through fifth anniversary dates of November 19, 1996. The tax
withholding right permits a participant to
elect, subject to the approval of the Compensation Committee, to satisfy the
withholding requirement, in whole or
in part, by having the Company withhold shares equal to the tax. Of the
remaining 30,250 options held by the
Reporting Person, 4,062 options first became exercisable on each of December 1,
1994, December 1, 1995, and
December 1, 1996, and 4,064 options will become exercisable on December 1,
1997, all with an exercise price of
$19.3125; 3,500 options first became exercisable on November 15, 1996, and
3,500 options will become
exercisable on each of November 15, 1997, November 15, 1998, and November 15,
1999, all with an exercise
price of $22.3750. All of the nonexercisable stock options, in the event of a
"Change in Control" as defined int he
Plan under which they were granted, may become immediately exercisable unless
specifically prohibited by the
terms of applicable law.
SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON
Richard M. Schilling
