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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 62 – Main Rotor – Swashplate – Inspection, took effect Dec. 25, 2025.

The FAA is accepting comments through Feb. 12 on this airworthiness directive (AD), which requires repetitive engine acceleration checks and—depending on the results—replacing the rear pneumatic line and inspecting the fuel control unit. The AD takes effect Tuesday, Jan. 13.

Flight paramedic Hector Camacho reached the milestone after working at various LifeNet bases across the state for more than 12 years.

SKYbrary highlights an investigation into a flight on Oct. 20, 2020, where the crew of a Sikorsky S-92A received an engine 1 fire warning while over water. They responded by shutting down the engine, deploying both fire extinguishing bottles, and eventually declaring a Mayday without taking all recommended steps to confirm that an actual fire existed.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) requires incorporating new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations into the existing maintenance manual or instructions for continued airworthiness and the existing approved maintenance or inspection program, as applicable. The AD takes effect Feb. 6.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Feb. 6, requires repetitive tap inspections of certain part-numbered main-rotor blades and, if necessary, repairing or replacing them.

Dan Power, pilot with PHI Aviation, details the corrective actions he took after a low-level bird strike involving a US Department of Justice Bell 407 in the latest edition of the US Helicopter Safety Team newsletter.

(POWER UP magazine) – Now that public comments are closed, here’s what’s next for this era-defining FAA regulation.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has added unmanned aircraft systems and critical components produced in countries outside the United States to its covered list.

Under a partnership with the Special Integrated Logistics Zone Co., Rotortrade will develop a maintenance, sales, and services facility in Riyadh with plans to open in late 2026.