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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 05 – Time Limits/Maintenance Checks – Airworthiness Limitations Section – Amendment, takes effect Mar. 13, 2026. It will supersede AD 2024-0177 (issued Sep. 13, 2024), AD 2021-0215-E (Sep. 21, 2021), AD 2020-0269 (Dec. 7, 2020), AD 2020-0081 (Apr. 1, 2020), and AD 2018-0177 (Aug. 21, 2018).

(CBS News) – The new restrictions around Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX) prohibit police helicopters from flying in the airspace near the airport, which has cut off air support for some stations in the southern part of the California city.

The US aviation regulator issued an emergency order alleging that the Houston, Texas–based operator knowingly falsified pilot training records.

(Urban Air Mobility News) – The Utah Department of Transportation is partnering with Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Oregon to send in a proposal for the FAA’s Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Integration Pilot Program.

(Unmanned Airspace) – The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)–sponsored Routine Autonomous Multi-Aircraft Operations Working Group is meeting this week to address challenges in scaling multi-aircraft operations using drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, including defining the optimal human-to-autonomous aircraft ratio.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars Global Location device, which runs on a processor that the Perseverance Rover previously used to communicate with the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, features an algorithm that rapidly compares panoramic images from the rover’s navigation cameras with onboard orbital terrain maps.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation has submitted a proposal to participate in the FAA’s Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Integration Pilot Program.

The US Air Force (USAF) 1st Helicopter Squadron highlighted a Bell UH-1N Huey during Berliner Helicopter Day Feb. 21 at College Park Aviation Museum.

Eoin Walker, flight paramedic and EMS promoter at Airbus Helicopters, explains how helicopters allow doctors to treat patients within the golden hour—the first 60 minutes immediately following a major trauma.

(DVIDS) – The Alaska Air National Guard helicopter crew airlifted the snowmobile driver Feb. 21 near Cooper Landing.