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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 04 – Time Limits / Maintenance Checks – Airworthiness Limitations Section – Amendment, becomes effective May 7, 2025.

The General Civil Aviation Agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has approved the design for the planned transformation of the Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal helipad into a hybrid heliport for both helicopter and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft operations.

The facility will be aimed at researching and developing emerging aviation technologies such as drones, air taxis, and hypersonic and supersonic aircraft.

(Vertical HeliCASTS) – At VERTICON 2025 in March, The Helicopter Podcast team explored how drones and helicopters collaborate on missions, featuring Ascent’s new Helius small unmanned aerial vehicle and insights on aerial collaboration.

Aerospace logistics company B&H Worldwide assisted the New Zealand–based aircraft maintenance and management company with the delivery of a new Airbus H125 helicopter into the country from Norway.

(AIN) – After the fatal January midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA), the FAA began an analysis of hot-spot airports and other high-risk areas. So far, these early steps have produced results including reducing traffic alert and collision avoidance system reports by 30% in just three weeks in Las Vegas, Nevada, with broader safety efforts underway.

(FOX 61/YouTube) – A LIFE STAR helicopter landed at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, on Apr. 23 during the Hartford Healthcare Career Fair.

Avtrain and ANRA Technologies UK have announced a strategic partnership to launch the SORA-Mate platform, an automated Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) risk assessment tool for the United Kingdom (UK) drone market.

When power is lost to the main-rotor system, the very first thing a pilot must do is apply aft, or back, cyclic. This is the lesson legendary rotorcraft flight instructor Pete Gillies shares in his “Cyclic Back” lecture, given industrywide–and via a 13-min. video presentation in this webinar. His advice comes from years of examining […]