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The Africa 2024–2025 report outlines infrastructure and financing challenges and notes a shift toward Western-built preowned helicopters while identifying growth opportunities in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

The organization, which is accepting applications through Oct. 3, will award scholarship winners on Mar. 8, 2026, before VERTICON®, which takes place Mar. 9–12, 2026, (exhibits open Mar. 10–12) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Researchers from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and aviation safety company ResilienX are developing a system that allows drone operators to submit flight plans prior to departure, quickly obtain the results of a risk assessment, and decide whether to proceed or change their plans.

The Austrian company will display its eCopter electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft during the Saudi Drone Exhibition Sep. 1–3 in Riyadh.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Sep. 9, applies to A109A, A109AII, A109C, A109K2, A119, and certain AW119 MkII helicopters. It requires checking for proper installation of the bolts that attach the pitch actuator assembly and the roll actuator assembly to their respective bell crank assemblies in the cyclic control system.

(BBC) – An HM Coastguard helicopter crew assisted local police with hoisting two hikers from a cliff Aug. 23 south of Bude in Cornwall, England.

The newly released United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) summer 2025 newsletter includes an update on recent fatal US helicopter accidents, a comparison of accident trends between the motorsport and rotorcraft industries, an exploration of spatial disorientation, and more.

(AIN) – The incoming VAI president and CEO is already laying the groundwork for a fast start with plans for elevating the organization on an international stage and across vertical aviation.

(Daily Herald) – Local officials and the US Forest Service are asking the community for less interference after a fifth drone incursion delayed aircraft from responding to the Buckley Fire Aug. 20 near Provo.

(Unmanned Airspace) – TruWeather Solutions, in partnership with local governments in North Texas, has introduced a weather data system for low-flying electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and drone operators.