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VAI Daily

Mar. 28, 2025

TracPlus appoints new CEO

The New Zealand–based aerial firefighting software company has named John O’Hara, a former chairman of its board of directors, as CEO.

VAI Daily

Mar. 28, 2025

Bell celebrates 40th anniversary of Kestrel Aviation

Bell Textron is highlighting the family-owned Australian business founded in 1985, which provides aerial firefighting and emergency response services with a fleet that includes the Bell 206L-3, 407, 212, and 412.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

City on fire

(POWER UP magazine) – The wildfires that decimated Los Angeles, California, in January pushed aerial firefighting teams to their limits. These are some of their stories.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

VAI Briefs: VAI leads collaboration on HEC policy

(POWER UP) – After nearly two years’ collaboration with VAI and other rotorcraft operators, the FAA revised its human external cargo (HEC) policy.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

Life Flight Network to expand air medical services in Hawaii

The Daniel R. Sayre Memorial Foundation is collaborating with donors to help fund a new Airbus H145 that Life Flight Network will operate across Hawaii County.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

Raytheon launches Coyote military drone from helicopter

RTX subsidiary Raytheon evaluated a new version of its Coyote unmanned aerial system from a helicopter during a recent test at the Nine Mile Training Center in Texas.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

BOOST Systems to offer IMS New Zealand bucket in Canada, US

BOOST Systems has reached an agreement to serve as an exclusive representative for IMS New Zealand’s Cloudburst Fire Bucket in Canada and the United States.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

Nautilus Aviation’s Bell 407GXi fleet tops 6,300 flight hours

The flight-hour total includes more than 3,000 hours accumulated since June 2024 on a variety of missions around North Queensland and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

South Australia Police to add pair of Bell 429s into air support fleet

Toll Aviation and the government of South Australia have ordered two Bell 429s, which will join the law enforcement operator’s fleet of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in 2027.

VAI Daily

Mar. 27, 2025

Airbus delivers pair of H145Ms to Cyprus military

The National Guard of the Republic of Cyprus has received the first two H145Ms from Airbus as part of a six-helicopter order.