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Aero Asset: Tightening supply, firm pricing in 2025 twin-engine helicopter market ATLANTA, USA, March 10, 2026 – Aero Asset, a global helicopter sales and market intelligence firm, has released its 2025 Annual Heli Market Trends Twin-Engine edition during a press conference at VERTICON in Atlanta, GA. Backed by Aero Asset’s expertise and proprietary market insight, this […]

The FAA and US Department of Transportation have selected Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero to work with the Texas Department of Transportation under the Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).

Michelle Horn, Delta Airlines chief strategy officer, and Bryan Willows, director of advanced air mobility (AAM) at Bristow Group, will participate in a panel at 10:30 am eastern (UTC-4) on Wednesday, Mar. 11, during VERTICON 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. They will discuss how airline and helicopter operators are evaluating AAM, regional connectivity, airspace integration, and partnership opportunities.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Mar. 25, requires operational inspections of each engine drain valve for certain helicopters, inspections of each affected rear-cargo compartment hose, installation and repetitive inspections of thermal papers, and corrective actions, if necessary. It also requires inspection of the rear-cargo compartment hoses in conjunction with the initial operational inspections. The FAA is accepting comments on the AD through Apr. 24.

At the VERTICON Safety Symposium on Mar. 9, Elias Kontanis, PhD, chief of the US National Transportation Safety Board’s Transportation Disaster Assistance Division, explained why every vertical aviation operator, no matter its size, needs its own assistance program for accident victims and their families.

The OEM formally launched an unmanned aircraft division Mar. 10 at VERTICON 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. The company said the separate Robinson Unmanned business unit will be dedicated to “the development and support of a full suite of remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft” that includes modified models of its R44 and R66 helicopters and its Ascent line of coaxial rotor unmanned aircraft systems.