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This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Feb. 17, supersedes AD 2014-13-09, released Jul. 15, 2014. The updated AD continues to require some of the actions in the existing AD while expanding the applicability to include EC135 P3 and T3 models and reducing the compliance time for the repetitive inspections. It would also allow the modification of the ring frame X9227 as a terminating action for repetitive visual inspections. The FAA is accepting comments on the updated AD through Mar. 19.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Feb. 17, requires replacement of the upper and lower pitch-rod end bearings on the pitch rods of the main rotor with new pitch-rod end bearings, and reporting of the results. The FAA is accepting comments through Mar. 19 on the AD.

(Business Insider) – The state’s Department of Transportation has submitted a proposal for the FAA’s Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program that would establish an air-medical response network using advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan.

With help from parent company Diamond Aircraft, Volocopter has reworked its supply chain and plans to obtain European Union Aviation Safety Agency certification of its VoloCity electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in 2027.

The preliminary US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report indicates that multiple witness videos captured the helicopter rotating about its vertical axis before hitting trees. The pilot and three passengers received minor injuries in the accident.

Airbus Helicopters has published a feature about how a pair of Hungarian Air Force H225Ms joined a battle to douse wildfires in Albania only a few days after delivery in late July 2025.

Air Methods operator Mercy Air 29 began providing air medical services in 2006 to the US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.

The FAA has approved VAI’s request to extend and amend Exemption No. 6002O to allow properly trained pilots employed by member operators to remove and reinstall liquid oxygen (LOX) system containers in company-owned or -leased aircraft after receiving and documenting training in this task by an FAA-certificated airframe mechanic. The extension runs until Jan. 31, 2028. The existing exemption expires at midnight on Jan. 31, 2026; all operations specifications will need to be updated with the new exemption number before that time. Because Jan. 31, 2026, falls on a Saturday, there is a risk of noncompliance for Part 135 operators that have this exemption in their operations specifications if they do not update and issue them prior to the weekend.

VAI, a Modern Skies Coalition member, is asking Congress to pass the FY26 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The legislation would fund the FAA against future US government shutdowns. A potential deal to avoid another shutdown is in the works and is expected to receive votes in Congress by Jan. 31.

(CNN Business) – US President Donald Trump wrote on social media Jan. 29 that he is decertifying all aircraft made in Canada and threatened a 50% tariff until the country certifies American-made Gulfstreams. It is unclear whether Trump has the legal authority to decertify aircraft. No US president has ever decertified jets directly. The decision has always been made by aviation safety experts at the FAA.