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Under a partnership with Jet Aviation, S.A.F.E. Structure Designs has delivered custom Bell 429 maintenance platforms and equipment to the Saudi Arabian Army. 

The Operational Risk and Resilience Accreditation (ORRA) program offers VAI member operators a flexible, evolving, and organized approach to managing risks and improving processes across their flight operations.

This edition of VAI Flight Report comes to you from VERTICON 2025, VAI’s renamed annual conference and trade show, which closed Mar. 13 in Dallas, Texas. Hear from James Viola, VAI’s outgoing president and CEO, about all that went into making the inaugural VERTICON a resounding success on and off the exhibit floor. And VAI […]

The 2025 winners of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) awards program include former Sikorsky engineer Michael Torok receiving the Dr. Alexander Klemin Award.

The FAA is seeking comments by May 5 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require updating the airworthiness limitations section of the existing maintenance manual or the instructions for continued airworthiness. It would also require updating the existing maintenance or inspection program, if applicable, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency AD.

The company has released the milestone episode of its Air Methods Prehospital Education (AMPED) podcast, which launched in February 2021.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 53–Fuselage–Main Gearbox Suspension Bar Fittings and Screws–Life Limit/Replacement/Modification, takes effect Mar. 26, 2025. It revises AD 2023-0194, released Nov. 8, 2023, which superseded AD 2018-0260, dated Dec. 3, 2018.

Visitors to the Avalon Australian International Airshow, which takes place Mar. 25–28 in Geelong, Victoria, can visit Stand #4M17 to see a scale model of the Boeing subsidiary’s electric air taxi.

A new episode of The Helicopter Podcast features Cade Clark, VAI’s chief government affairs officer, discussing the association’s pivotal role in helping shape the helicopter industry.