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(iGrow News) – Bend, Oregon–based Kawak Aviation Technologies has added the ability for pilots to maintain variable-speed control into its KFlow 200 electric spray pump.

The latest edition of the United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) newsletter provides a snapshot of the October 2025–January 2026 data from the FAA’s Rotorcraft Accident Dashboard.

(KVVU) – A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Search and Rescue (SAR) crew transported a group of passengers whose private helicopter became grounded at a remote landing site near Grand Canyon and Valley of Fire.

Chris Baur with the United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) will discuss the FAA’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) program at the FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) webinar. The virtual event starts at 10:00 am eastern (UTC-4) this Saturday, Mar. 21.

The company’s electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft helped kick off Joby’s 2026 Electric Skies Tour of the United States with flights over the San Francisco Bay Area.

The new FAA general notice, which suspends the use of visual separation between fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, now mandates that air traffic controllers will instead use radar to actively manage the aircraft to keep them separated at specific lateral or vertical distances. The new measure is based on a yearlong review by the FAA’s safety team that used tools to review cross-traffic data and incident reports.

Bell Textron has conducted the first AH-1Z and UH-1Y upgrades under the US Marine Corps Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects (SPINE) program.