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The FAA and US Department of Transportation has selected the Boeing subsidiary to work with the Texas Department of Transportation under the Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).

Michelle Horn, Delta Airlines chief strategy officer, and Bryan Willows, director of advanced air mobility (AAM) at Bristow Group, will participate in a panel at 10:30 am eastern (UTC-4) on Wednesday, Mar. 11 during VERTICON 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. They will discuss how airline and helicopter operators are evaluating AAM, regional connectivity, airspace integration, and partnership opportunities.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has introduced an improved version of its Easy Access Rules publications, including faster performance, stable permalinks, and other new features.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Mar. 25, requires operational inspections of each engine drain valve for certain helicopters, inspections of each affected rear-cargo compartment hose, installation and repetitive inspections of thermal papers, and corrective actions, if necessary. It also requires inspection of the rear-cargo compartment hoses in conjunction with the initial operational inspections. The FAA is accepting comments on the AD through Apr. 24.

(AVweb) – The FAA has activated a radar data-sharing initiative with the Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Test Site in Grand Forks, North Dakota, enabling the integration of federal radar information into the state’s Vantis beyond visual line of sight system.

At the VERTICON Safety Symposium on Mar. 9, Elias Kontanis, PhD, chief of the US National Transportation Safety Board’s Transportation Disaster Assistance Division, explained why every vertical aviation operator, no matter its size, needs its own assistance program for accident victims and their families.

The OEM formally launched an unmanned aircraft division Mar. 10 at VERTICON 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. The company said the separate Robinson Unmanned business unit will be dedicated to “the development and support of a full suite of remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft” that includes modified models of its R44 and R66 helicopters and its Ascent line of coaxial rotor unmanned aircraft systems.

(AIN) – Eve Air Mobility is displaying a full-scale mock-up of its Eve-100 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at VERTICON 2026 this week in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of its efforts to build the advanced air mobility business case among helicopter operators—and within the US market in particular.

The FAA and US Department of Transportation (DOT) have chosen BETA Technologies to participate in seven of the eight projects under the Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).