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Supernal and Blade Urban Air Mobility are teaming up on the development of advanced air mobility (AAM) networks and fleet management operations using Supernal’s electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the companies announced at this week’s National Business Aviation Association 2024 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

(DroneDJ) – The FAA has granted the Campbell Police Department in Santa Clara County the first waiver for beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations as part of the department’s Drone as a First Responder program.

Helicopter Institute has added a Bell 429 helicopter and a new Level 5 flight training device (FTD) to its training fleet in support of its Beyond Factory Training initiative.

(KIFI) – A helicopter crew assisted local responders with airlifting a hunter who was injured after being thrown off a horse Oct. 18 on a mountain near Swan Valley, Idaho.

Introducing the VAI Debrief, a concise, easy-to-read guide to the latest FAA regulations. Each VAI Debrief quickly breaks down an FAA regulation into simple, easy-to-understand language, keeping you up-to-date about the issues most important to your vertical aviation business.

The FAA has issued a new rule that removes expiration dates from flight instructor certificates, among other changes. To learn how this rule could affect you, see inside.

The FAA has updated the rule regarding flight-time logging and flight instructor privileges, with significant impacts on public aircraft operations and experimental aircraft. To learn how this rule could affect you, see inside.

(CNET) – Joby Aviation is conducting test flights and ramping up production of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at its manufacturing plant at Marina Municipal Airport (KOAR) in Monterey County, California.

Apex Heli-Support is hosting a fly-in for owners, operators, pilots, and maintenance technicians of the MD 500 series and the Boeing AH/MH-6 Little Bird this weekend from Oct. 25–27 at Wickenburg Municipal Airport in Maricopa County, Arizona.

(VOA) – Chinese drone maker DJI has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense that challenges its inclusion on a list of companies that the US military claims have ties with the Chinese military.