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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting feedback through Mar. 6 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 31 – Instruments – Fuse Cover Attachment of Circuit Breaker Panel – Modification.

The OEM is proposing two concepts for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Next Generation Rotorcraft Capabilities (NGRC) program in partnership with Collins Aerospace and Raytheon—a high-performance conventional and a high-speed compound helicopter.

The air medical operator prepared 33 new doctors to join its network across Queensland at the LifeFlight Training Academy at Brisbane Airport (YBBN).

(KARE) – Helicopter crews assisted with locating and recovering the bodies of nine skiers who died in an avalanche last week near Lake Tahoe.

The service bulletin introduces a new cyclic stop window that reduces the aft-cyclic travel after Bell determined that high-amplitude, rapid fore-and-aft cyclic inputs while hovering increase the risk of rotor-to-airframe contact.

(Metal Additive Manufacturing magazine) – United Kingdom–based QinetiQ and Additive Manufacturing Solutions have completed the first flight of a Leonardo A109S featuring a structural component produced through laser beam powder bed fusion from recycled titanium.

The new Loft H125 simulator is located within the headquarters of Airbus Helicopters at Marseille Provence Airport (LFML) in France.

(Chosen Biz) – According to the Korea Forest Service, the helicopter crews helped 36 ground vehicles and 186 firefighters battle the blazes Feb. 22 in Hamyang County, South Gyeongsang.

(Mena FN) – The helicopter went down Feb. 21 in the Amur region. Authorities in the region indicated that the pilot lacked authorization to fly the helicopter, which had not been properly registered.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which becomes effective Mar. 10, 2026, requires repetitive inspections of the pyrotechnical cartridge. It also prohibits installing an affected pyrotechnical cartridge on any helicopter without first meeting certain requirements. The FAA is accepting comments about the AD through Apr. 9, 2026.