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(Business Today) – The country’s Ministry of Transportation is drafting regulations and preparing infrastructure to support commercial drone operations by the end of next year, with an early focus on delivering supplies to rural and underdeveloped areas.

The air ambulance operator has started training pilots with an Airbus H125 full-motion virtual reality (VR) simulator at its base in Mesa, Arizona.

The OEM is the sponsor of the Marriott-Carlson Lifetime Achievement Award and will display an IFR-configured Global Medical Response Bell 407GXi during the Air Medical Transport Conference (AMTC), which takes place Oct. 27–29 in Omaha, Nebraska.

On Day 2 of the 2025 VAI Air Tour Safety Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct. 22, the focus was squarely on real-world lessons, human factors, and the discipline required to prevent the next accident.

(WGN9) – Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey’s son, daughter-in-law, and two young grandchildren were killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday in Montana.

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(The Wall Street Journal) – Pivotal’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) offering is the first ultralight eVTOL aircraft to reach the consumer market. Here’s how it works and the challenges it faces as it races toward mass adoption.

Davenport Aviation has unveiled Virtus, the first modular weapon system for the H125/AS350, according to the company, enabling rapid multimission capability.

Airwolf Aerospace has received supplemental type certificate (STC) approvals from the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority for installing True Blue Power lithium-ion batteries on a variety of helicopters, including Airbus, Bell, Enstrom, Hiller, and MD Helicopters models.

(Unmanned Airspace) – Chippewa County will host a new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) operations center for drone operations, positioning the county as a testbed for scalable public and private UAS deployment across Michigan. The initiative is led by ANRA Technologies in partnership with Censys Technologies, the county economic development corporation, and the Michigan Tech Research Institute.