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(Vertical magazine) – Summit Aviation has agreed to purchase Canadian helicopter operator Blackcomb’s air tour business. Summit plans to continue operating the fleet for utility, aerial filming, firefighting, and emergency response under the Blackcomb brand from its bases in Squamish and Whistler in British Columbia.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 55 – Stabilizers – Horizontal Stabilizer – Inspections, takes effect Jan. 26.

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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report indicates that a witness saw the helicopter strike a highline/slackline before the tail boom separated from the fuselage. Investigators found slackline webbing embedded in the vertical stabilizer. Four people died in the accident.

(Cowboy State Daily) – Two Robinson R44s collided while trying to land during a Wyoming Game and Fish Department operation to capture mule deer Jan. 9 near Parkman in Sheridan County.

(CBC) – Jocelyn Kelly-Bourassa, 20, from Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada, earned her commercial helicopter license in a Robinson R22. She credits her interest in aviation to her family and seeing helicopters respond to a wildfire in 2024.

(GlobeNewswire) – A new report from Research and Markets estimates that the global market for unmanned helicopters will expand from a 2025 value of $5.78 billion to $11.94 billion in 2030.

(7News) – A Sikorsky Black Hawk crew working for the Victoria State Emergency Service retrieved more than a dozen cars that were swept into the ocean from flooding along the Cumberland River in Lorne.

The FAA is accepting comments through Mar. 9 on this airworthiness directive (AD), which requires repetitive inspections of the main-rotor blade attachment bolts and replacement, if necessary. It also requires reporting the inspection results. The AD takes effect Feb. 6.

This FAA airworthiness directive, which becomes effective Feb. 6, requires repetitive inspections of the cap angle and corrective actions, if necessary. The FAA is accepting comments on the AD through Mar. 9.