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(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.

The US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a series of bills Jan. 21, including legislation that directs the FAA to conduct a safety report on how unmanned aircraft system incursions impact wildfire suppression efforts. Another bill would modernize FAA requirements by allowing pilots and other certificate holders to present digital certificates instead of physical ones.

(MyMotherLode.com) – A California Highway Patrol helicopter crew assisted local search-and-rescue teams with hoisting the hiker Jan. 22 from a canyon along the Tuolumne River.

(Task & Purpose) – According to a US Air Force (USAF) accident investigation, children and teachers should have been 600 ft. away when a USAF HH-60W landed at their elementary school for an April 2025 family event at Kadena Air Force Base in Japan. Instead, they were less than 100 ft. The report notes that a teacher’s death after being thrown to the ground by rotor wash resulted from poor planning and a “false confidence of safety” among pilots, crew, and leaders of the USAF 33rd Rescue Squadron.

The webcast of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) public board meeting starts at 9 am eastern (UTC-5) tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 27. The meeting will focus on the release of the probable cause of a Jan. 29, 2025, midair collision between a regional passenger jet and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA).