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The single-engine edition of the 2025 Annual Heli Market Trends report notes that the global supply dropped 26% year-over-year while median transaction prices rose 5%.

US Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford have announced plans to overhaul the FAA’s organizational structure. The restructuring includes the creation of a new safety oversight office and a single safety management system (SMS) and risk-management strategy for the US aviation regulator. It also includes the creation of offices focused on airspace modernization and advanced aviation technologies, which will oversee the integration of drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft into the US National Airspace System.

(RotorHub) – The German company has obtained European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Entrol Bell 412 flight training device (FTD) in Bavaria.

Bristow Group has closed on a private offering of $500 million in senior secured notes and extended its asset-based revolving credit facility to 2031. The moves strengthen the company’s financial position and provide additional strategic and operational flexibility, according to President and CEO Chris Bradshaw.

(Irish Independent) – The helicopter crew located the four hikers and transported them from Benwiskin mountain Jan. 25 in County Sligo.

(TXK Today) – Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) is using helicopters and drones to assess damage to power lines across sections of northern Texas and Louisiana following Winter Storm Fern.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting feedback through Feb. 23 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 67 – Rotors Flight Control – Collective Stick Torque Tube Assembly – Inspection/Replacement.

(The Denver Post) – CareFlight of the Rockies helicopter crews assisted snow teams with airlifting four backcountry skiers who were suffering from injuries due to extreme cold in the Elk Mountains.

Australian vertiport developer Skyportz has released an advanced air mobility market study that forecasts the need for around 400 vertipads in Delhi by 2035 and more than 2,000 vertipads by 2045.

The OEM received 544 gross orders across its civil and military product lines last year and delivered 392 helicopters to 205 operators in 50 countries.