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VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Arizona city begins public safety helicopter operations (VIDEO)
(KSAZ) - The Peoria Police Department and the Peoria Fire-Medical Department have launched the city’s first Aviation Unit with a new Bell 505.
Proposed EASA AD: Airbus EC175B helicopters
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Proposed EASA AD: Airbus EC175B helicopters
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting comments through Sep. 18, 2024, on this proposed airworthiness directive (PAD), ATA 32–Landing Gear–Nose Landing Gear A-Frame/Airframe ...
FAA to provide $20 million for US air traffic control tower upgrades
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA to provide $20 million for US air traffic control tower upgrades
The FAA is seeking applications through Sep. 18, 2024, for its FY 2025 Airport Infrastructure Grant program, which will provide $20 million for air traffic control tower improvement projects acros ...
FAA issues special conditions for Bell 525 fly-by-wire system
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA issues special conditions for Bell 525 fly-by-wire system
The special conditions contain additional standards to establish a level of safety equivalent to existing airworthiness standards, as the Bell 525’s digital fly-by-wire flight control system is no ...
Vertical Aerospace advances VX4 eVTOL flight testing (VIDEO)
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Vertical Aerospace advances VX4 eVTOL flight testing (VIDEO)
(AIN) - The company recently started test flights with a second VX4 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype with partners that include Honeywell, GKN Aerospace, and Leonardo.
FAA issues new rule on supplemental restraint systems
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA issues new rule on supplemental restraint systems
This FAA final rule, which takes effect Oct. 21, 2024, prohibits the use of supplemental restraint systems in civil aircraft unless operators meet certain requirements for ensuring passenger and c ...
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
FAA, NPS finalize air tour management agreement for Lake Mead
(National Parks Traveler) - The FAA and US National Park Service (NPS) have announced the completion of a commercial air tour management voluntary agreement for Lake Mead in Arizona and Nevada.
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Beta trains initial air ambulance pilots on Alia
(Revolution.aero) - Helicopter and fixed-wing pilots from Unither Bioelectronics have completed training for air ambulance operations using the Beta Technologies Alia CX300 conventional takeoff an ...
Lilium begins integration testing of eVTOL aircraft power system
VAI Weekly
August 22, 2024
Lilium begins integration testing of eVTOL aircraft power system
Lilium has conducted the first phase of integration testing for the electrical power system on its Lilium Jet electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at its laboratory in Munich, Ba ...
VAI Weekly
August 21, 2024
Chicago police order Bell 407GXis as new Bell 429 enters service
Bell Textron has delivered a new Bell 429 to the Chicago (Illinois) Police Department, which has placed an order for two Bell 407GXis.